Mark Stille
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early hours of December 7, 1941, the Japanese First Air Fleet launched a massive air-strike against the American Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Supported by a group of midget submarines, the attack gutted the American battleship fleet but, owing to a lack of intelligence, the American aircraft carriers they hoped to destroy were not present. In this new study of the raid, Mark Stille reexamines the political context of the attack...
Author
Series
New vanguard volume 146
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A comprehensive overview of the strategy, operations, and vessels of the United States Navy from 1941 to 1945. Although slowly building its navy while neutral during the early years of World War II, the US was struck a serious blow when its battleships, the lynchpin of US naval doctrine, were the target of the dramatic attack at Pearl Harbor. In the Pacific Theater, the US was thereafter locked into a head to head struggle with the impressive Imperial...
Author
Series
Duel volume 31
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
