World War II: Carrier War by Stephen W. Sears

By Stephen W. Sears

At nightfall on December eight, 1941, the service company and her escort of cruisers and destroyers entered Pearl Harbor. officials and males covered the rails, observing in shocked silence. The twisted, smoldering superstructure of the Arizona was once nonetheless aflame, and there has been a stench of charred wooden and gas oil within the air.

"Morale went to not anything with regards to then," acknowledged an officer on one of many escorting cruisers. "We have been in poor health and surprised. We could not think that this had occurred to us." in the course of the evening, the team of the firm, less than the command of Admiral William "Bull" Halsey, took on gasoline, provisions, and ammunition. sooner than sunrise it was once again at sea.

The firm used to be only one of the vendors that received the warfare within the Pacific. this is the intense tale of the lads and ships that grew to become the tide of the war.

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