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The Battle For Hell's Island

How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save Guadalcanal

ISBN-13: 9780451473752

Contributor(s): Stephen L Moore

Subject: Military History

Publisher Imprint: New American Library

Publication Date: 05-11-2015

Format: Hardback

Availability: Out of stock

£24.99

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November, 1942: Japanese and American forces had been fighting for control of Guadalcanal. Amid a seeming stalemate, a group of U.S. Navy carrier airmen helped form the Cactus Air Force, a motley assemblage of Marine, Air Force, and carrier-less Navy airmen tasked with holding the line. Under constant assault by the Japanese, pilots and gunners rarely lasted more than a few weeks. Yet when the Japanese attempted to take the island once and for all, these men miraculously turned back a warship armada, fighter planes, and a convoy of troops.