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Target Hong Kong: A true story of U.S. Navy pilots at war

Autor Steven K. Bailey
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 ian 2024
Brought to life by the personal accounts of six Navy pilots and one British POW, this is the history of the U.S. Navy airstrikes on Japanese-held Hong Kong.Commander John Lamade started the war in 1941 a nervous pilot of an antiquated biplane. Just over three years later he was in the cockpit of a cutting-edge Hellcat about to lead a strike force of 80 aircraft through the turbulent skies above the South China Sea. His target: Hong Kong. As a storm of antiaircraft fire darkened the sky, watching from below was POW Ray Jones. For three long years he and his fellow prisoners had endured near starvation conditions in a Japanese internment camp. Did these American aircraft, he wondered, herald freedom? Trawling through historic records, Steven K. Bailey discovered that the story of the U.S. Navy airstrikes on Japanese-held Hong Kong during the final year of World War II had never been told. Operation Gratitude involved nearly 100 U.S. Navy warships and close to a thousand planes. Target Hong Kong brings this massive operation down to a human scale by recounting the air raids through the experiences of seven men whose lives intersected at Hong Kong in January 1945: Commander John D. Lamade, five of his fellow U.S. Navy pilots and the POW Ray Jones. Drawing upon oral histories, diary transcripts, and U.S. Navy documents, this book expertly narrates the intertwined experiences of these servicemen to bring the history to life.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472860101
ISBN-10: 1472860101
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 8-page plate section in black and white
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Osprey Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Steven K. Bailey has researched the American air war over Hong Kong during World War II for several years, discovering little known details in the archives, visiting key sites around Hong Kong over the course of over 30 visits and even unearthing aircraft crash sites of the individuals included in the book.

Notă biografică

Steven K. Bailey is an established author and tenured faculty member of Central Michigan University (CMU) with expertise in nonfiction writing, the history and culture of Hong Kong, the Second World War, and U.S. military aviation. He is uniquely qualified to write the definitive account of U.S. Navy airstrikes against Japanese-occupied Hong Kong. He lives in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.

Cuprins

AcronymsPlace NamesList of IllustrationsMaps1. January 19452. December 19413. We Are Now Prisoners of War4. Boxing Day, 19415. Training Days6. Little Jack and the Big John7. Manila Bay8. Convoy Hi-879. Crew Two10. Hot, Straight, and Normal11. Shootin' Star12. The Most Frightening Thing13. Blanket Missions14. A Complete Failure15. Target 816. Fifteen to Twenty Seconds of Flotation17. Intense to Unbelievable18. Three Planes Down19. Triple X20. The Man in the Harris Tweed21. The Bombing of Bungalow C22. The Results Were Not Commensurate with the Losses23. The Navy Department Deeply Regrets to Inform You24. Houseguests25. Eager Beavers26. Courts of Inquiry27. Killed on a Sunday28. Ten Centuries29. The Bombing of Bungalow A30. On the Beach31. Forever and a Day32. Reparations, Reassignments, and Record Jackets33. Ninety-four Pounds34. Hungjao Road35. UnknownsEpilogueAcknowledgmentsEndnotesBibliographyIndex