The War Begins : The Navy's Early Carrier Raids, Februarye-May 1942

by David Lee Russell

The War Begins reveals in detail the events of the early carrier raids by the U.S. Pacific Fleet against the Japanese in the first half of 1942 in the Pacific War. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, carrier airpower would take on the supreme offensive role against Japanese forces in the first phase of the war. America's fast carrier task forces, with their aircraft squadrons and powerful support warships, took on the challenge, but the Pacific Fleet...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612515282
• ISBN13: 9781612515281
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Naval Institute Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.0" x 8.0"