| Description |
1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Summary |
In the summer of 1942 Jim Vernon, a nineteen-year-old college student in Butte, Montana, joined the U.S. Navy's aviation cadet training program and by the spring of 1945 was flying F6F Hellcats from the USS Ticonderoga off of the coast of Japan. This memoir of his years at war provides a carrier pilot's view of the conflict in the Pacific during the final months of the war when the atomic bombs were dropped and Japan capitulated. He gives an up-close-and-personal account of life in a bomber-fighter squadron and the roller-coaster emotions involved in combat sorties over the hostile sea and lan. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Vernon, James W., 1922-
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Vernon, James W., 1922- |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
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Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography.
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Hellcat (Fighter planes)
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. |
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Fighter pilots |
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Hellcat (Fighter planes) |
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Military campaigns |
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Pacific Ocean https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJt3VGpY6rKDD3QVRdJVYP |
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq |
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World War (1939-1945) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vBbhpRH9XvjbDFXtxhb |
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1939 - 1945 |
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Biographies
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Personal narratives -- American
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Print version: 9781557508652 |
| ISBN |
9781612513164 (electronic bk.) |
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1612513166 (electronic bk.) |
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