Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Special Note
• Abbreviations and Special Terms
• PART I The Early Operations
• 1. Introduction to War
• The Fighting Squadrons: Missions, Men and Aircraft
• AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NO DRILL
• Pearl Harbor Aftermath
• The Sara to the Front
• 2 "We are in great need of victory." The Wake Island Operation"
• Initial Moves
• The Disappointment
• 3 Interregnum
• The Weeks of Futility
• The Samoan Operation - The Yorktown to the Pacific
• 4 "This Sunday it's out turn to shoot!" The 1 February Raids
• Approach to Battle
• Task Force 8 in the Marshalls
• The Yorktown's strikes
• Return to Pearl
• 5 The Battle of Bougainville: Fighting Three in the Pacific
• 6 The Enterprise's Central Pacific Raids
• Return to Wake Island
• A Visit to Marcus
• 7 The Lae-Salamaua Riad
• Gathering The Forces
• A Change of Targets
• Withdrawal and the Lexington Home
• 8 The Tokyo Riad
• Preliminaries - Introducing the Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat
• The advent of Fighting Eight
• Six Hundred Miles from Tokyo
• PART II The Battle of the Coral Sea
• 9 Prelude to Battle
• The Yorktown in the Coral Sea, March-April 1942
• Fighting Two to the South Pacific
• 10 Opening Shots
• Coral Sea Preliminaries
• Tulagi Strike
• Gathering Storm: 5-6 May in the Coral Sea
• The Inscrutable Enemy
• 11 7 May 1942
• The Battle of Misima
• Afternoon Reassessment
• The Japanese Dusk Attack
• 12 The Carrier Battle of 8 May
• The Searches
• The Attack on MO Striking Force
• "Hey Rube" the Attack on Task Force
• Return of the Strike Groups
• The Loss of the Lex
• 13 Coral Sea Aftermath
• "We are all short of oil, running like hell"
• Task Force 16s Anabasis to the South Pacific
• "Desire you proceed to the Hawaiian Area"
• Coral Sea Combat Lessons
• PART III The Battle of Midway
• 14 Getting Ready for Midway
• The Reorganisation of Fighting Three
• The Carriers in Port
• Midway - the Waiting
• 15 The Battle of 4 June
• The Opening Moves
• The Attack on NAgumo's Carriers
• The Japanese Retaliate
• Retribution
• Summary for 4 June
• 16 Midway - The Pursuit
• 5-6 June off Midway
• The Loss of the Yorktown
• The Sara Back to the Front
• "How Good land will look this time"
• 17 The "First Team" Graduates
• 18 Midway Lessons - the F4F-4 Controversy
• PART IV Conclusion
• Appendices
• Notes
• Sources
• Index