Название: Then There Was One: The U.S.S. Enterprise And The First Year Of War
Автор: Eugene Burns
Издательство: Verdun Press
ISBN: 116315850X
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 6,8 МБ
Язык: Английский
With the war in the Pacific well into its new, offensive phase, the best carrier story of the war can now be told. It is the story of the Enterprise, one of the Navy's greatest fighting ships, the first carrier to receive the rarely awarded Presidential Citation. Of the seven first-line U. S. carriers when war began, four were sunk in the first year of war, another saw action in non-Pacific waters during the period involved, and another was out of action at the decisive moment. Then there was one—the Enterprise. Virtually alone, it held the long, thin Pacific line against overwhelming odds. It was part of the too little which was not, luckily for us, too late.