Rain of Steel: Mitscher's Task Force 58, Ugaki's Thunder Gods, and the Kamikaze War Off Okinawa

by Stephen L. Moore

The last Pacific campaign of World War II was the most violent on record. Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher's Task Force 58 carriers had conducted air strikes on mainland Japan and supported the Iwo Jima landings, but his aviators were sorely tested once the Okinawa campaign commenced on 1 April 1945. Rain of Steel follows Navy and Marine carrier aviators in the desperate air battles to control the kamikazes directed by Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki. The latter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682475263
• ISBN13: 9781682475263
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"