Название: Dogfight over Tokyo: The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War II
Автор: John Wukovits
Издательство: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306922053
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 336
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 12,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
From an expert in the Pacific theater of World War II comes the tragic story of the pilots who fought the last fight of the war during the first hour of peace
When Billy Hobbs and his fellow Hellcat aviators from Air Group 88 lifted off from the venerable Navy carrier USS Yorktown early on the morning of August 15, 1945, they had no idea they were about to carry out the final air mission of World War II. Two hours later, Yorktown received word from Admiral Nimitz that the war had ended and that all offensive operations should cease. As they were turning back, twenty Japanese planes suddenly dove from the sky above them and began a ferocious attack. Four American pilots never returned—men who had lifted off from the carrier in wartime but were shot down during peacetime.