Operation Vengeance : the astonishing aerial ambush that changed World War II /

1943. Naval Intelligence intercepted the itinerary of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, whose stealth attack on Pearl Harbor precipitated America's entry into the war. On April 18th, he would travel to Rabaul in the South Pacific to visit Japanese...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hampton, Dan (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Operation Vengeance, 1943. Yamamoto, Isoroku, > 1884-1943 > Assassination. World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Solomon Islands. World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American. Air pilots > United States.

Table of Contents:

Author's note
Foreword by Rex Barber Jr. and Rex Barber III
Prologue
Cauldron
The twilight
Down but never out
Shoestring
The American toe
Borrowed lives
Magnificent courage
At any cost
Sharks and dolphins
The eight-fingered samurai
Vengeance
Dominoes
Epilogue.