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by: Cory Graff
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.542528
EAN: 9781580070928
ISBN: 1580070922
Label: Specialty Press
Manufacturer: Specialty Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: August 14, 2006
Publisher: Specialty Press
Sales Rank: 611921
Studio: Specialty Press
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The Pacific island of Iwo Jima was the most expensive piece of real estate America has ever purchased. Lying halfway between U.S. air bases in the Mariana Islands and downtown Tokyo, the Japanese island was a threat to American aviation operations during the last phases of the war in the Pacific theater. So the United States took Iwo Jima, and in the process lost over 6,800 fighting men in some of the most brutal and bloody fighting of the war. Once the tables were turned, Iwo Jima offered valuable advantages to its conquerors. The island became a massive, unsinkable aircraft carrier,' close enough to Japan to furnish fighter escorts for big bombers, a hub for air sea rescue efforts, and an emergency landing field for hundreds of crippled American bombers. This book examines all aspects of the aviation activities surrounding Iwo Jima during the last year of World War II with exciting and informative first-hand accounts and hundreds of color and black-and-white images many of which have never been published before.
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Rating: - Impressive History of Iwo Jima Air War!
Though there have been many books on Iwo Jima, Cory Graff's book offers a unique, all-encompassing look at the various air actions related to Iwo that took place before, during and after the first Americans waded ashore on 19 February 1945. The American effort to invade Iwo and develop it as a major base for raids on Japan was truly a multi-service effort involving Navy, Air Force, Marine and Army units and aircraft as diverse as P-51s, Hellcats, PBYs, P-61s and even Sikorsky helicopters. Graff does ... Read More
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