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Early U.S. Navy Carrier Raids, February-April 1942: Five Operations That Tested a New Dimension of American Air Power Paperback - 2019

by David Lee Russell

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 After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, America's fast carrier task forces, with their aircraft squadrons and powerful support warships, went on the offensive. Under orders from Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, the newly appointed Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, took the fight to the Japanese, using island raids to slow their advance in the Pacific.

Beginning in February 1942, a series of task force raids led by the carriers USS Enterprise, USS Yorktown, USS Lexington and USS Hornet were launched, beginning in the Marshall Islands and Gilbert Islands. An attempted raid on Rabaul was followed by successful attacks on Wake Island and Marcus Island. The Lae-Salamaua Raid countered Japanese invasions on New Guinea. The most dramatic was the unorthodox Tokyo (Doolittle) Raid, where 16 carrier-launched B-25 medium bombers demonstrated that the Japanese mainland was open to U.S. air attacks.

The raids had a limited effect on halting the Japanese advance but kept the enemy away from Hawaii, the U.S. West coast and the Panama Canal, and kept open lines of communications to Australia.

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  • Title Early U.S. Navy Carrier Raids, February-April 1942: Five Operations That Tested a New Dimension of American Air Power
  • Author David Lee Russell
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 207
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland & Company
  • Publication date 2019-10-20
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9781476678467 / 1476678464
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 10 x 7 x 0.4 in (25.40 x 17.78 x 1.02 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects Raids (Military science), World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Pacific
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2019035880
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.542

About the author

David Lee Russell is a retired Naval Air Intelligence Officer, and former IT director. He is also the author of a book on a top WWII Navy Ace, the history of Eastern Airlines, three books on the American Revolution and two intelligence thriller books. He lives in Canton, Georgia.
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