The Hostile Sky: A Hellcat Flier in World War II

by James W. Vernon

Book Overview

In the summer of 1942 Jim Vernon, a nineteen-year-old college student in Butte, Montana, joined the U.S. Navy's aviation cadet training program and by the spring of 1945 was flying F6F Hellcats from the USS Ticonderoga off of the coast of Japan. This memoir of his years at war provides a carrier pilot's view of the conflict in the Pacific during the final months of the war when the atomic bombs were dropped and Japan capitulated. He gives an up-close-and-personal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557508658
• ISBN13: 9781557508652
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.2"