John F Di Virgilio J Michael Wenger Robert J Cress No One Avoided Dan (Hardback)

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Further Details Title: No One Avoided Danger Condition: New Subtitle: NAS Kaneohe Bay and the Japanese Attack of 7 December 1941 Author: John F Di Virgilio, J Michael Wenger, Robert J Cressman Format: Hardback EAN: 9781612519241 ISBN: 9781612519241 Publisher: Naval Institute Press Genre: History Topic: Military History Release Date: 01/28/2016 Description: No One Avoided Danger is a detailed combat narrative of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attacks on NAS Kaneohe Bay, one of two naval air stations on the island of O'ahu. Partly because of Kaneohe's location - 15 air miles over a mountain range from the main site of that day's infamous attack on Pearl Harbor - military historians have largely ignored the station's story. Moreover, there is an understandable tendency to focus on the massive destruction sustained by the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The attacks on NAS Kaneohe Bay, however, were equally destructive and no less disastrous, notwithstanding the station's considerable distance from the harbor. The work focuses on descriptions of actions in the air and on the ground at the deepest practical, personal, and tactical level, from both the American and Japanese perspectives. Such a synthesis is possible only by pursuing every conceivable source of American documents, reminiscences, interviews, and photographs. Similarly, the authors sought out Japanese accounts and photography from the attacks, many appearing in print for the first time. Information from the Japanese air group and ai

• Publisher: Naval Institute Press
• Year: 2015
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781612519241
• Condition: Fine

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