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The Battle for Hell's Island: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save Guadalcanal Paperback - 2016

by Stephen L. Moore

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From the author of Pacific Payback, the true story of how a patchwork band of aviators saved Guadalcanal during WWII.

November 1942: Japanese and American forces fight for control of Guadalcanal, a small but pivotal island in the South Pacific. The Japanese call it Jigoku no Shima--Hell's Island.

Amid a seeming stalemate, a small group of U.S. Navy dive-bombers is called upon to help determine the island's fate. When their carriers are lost, they are forced to operate from Henderson Field, a small dirt-and-gravel airstrip on Guadalcanal.

They help form the Cactus Air Force, tasked with making dangerous flights from their jungle airfield while holding the line against Japanese air assaults, warship bombardments, and sniper attacks from the jungle. When the Japanese launch a final offensive to take the island, these dive-bomber jocks answer the call of duty--turning back an enemy warship armada, fighter planes, and a convoy of troop transports.

The Battle for Hell's Island reveals how command of the South Pacific, and the outcome of the Pacific War, depended on control of a single dirt airstrip--and the small group of battle-weary aviators sent to protect it with their lives.

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  • Title The Battle for Hell's Island: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save Guadalcanal
  • Author Stephen L. Moore
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 528
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
  • Publication date 2016-11-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780451473769 / 0451473760
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 1 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Australian
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
    • Cultural Region: Oceania
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.542

About the author

Stephen L. Moore, a sixth-generation Texan, graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, where he studied advertising, marketing, and journalism. He is the author of multiple books on World War II and Texas history, including Pacific Payback: The Carrier Fly Boys Who Avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway and Taming Texas, a biography of his great-great-great-grandfather William T. Sadler, who was one of the first Texas Ranger captains in the 1830s. Steve lives north of Dallas in Lantana, Texas, with his wife, Cindy, and their three children.

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