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From critically acclaimed military historian Gerald Astor comes

Wings of Gold, the first account of how the airplane

transformed the U.S. Navy and paved the way to victory in the

Pacific in World War II. Astor tracks that fateful journey from its

humble beginnings in 1910 when Eugene Ely flew the very first plane

off the deck of a U.S. Navy ship to the unprecedented air combat

missions that helped defeat the Japanese.

Few naval aviators in World War II realized that when they earned

their wings of gold they were about to become test pilots for a

whole new kind of combat. In their own words, these courageous

fliers describe the life-and-death air battles that defined the

revolution in naval strategy that rose from the ashes of Pearl

Harbor, when fighter pilots watched in horror as Japanese

carrier-launched aircraft bombed their planes and airfields into

smoking rubble.

While following the pilots’ firsthand reports of air strikes and

blazing dogfights across the islands and atolls of the Pacific,

Astor explores the ways the U.S. Navy began its momentous

transformation before the war. Later, the critical role of aircraft

carriers in the stunning U.S. victory at Midway sounded the death

knell for conventional naval warfare, yet the public, the press,

the Army, and even the president’s advisors refused to recognize

the new reality. In fact, only a few in the Navy understood that a

new era had begun that would change the face of war forever.

The young Americans who fought the deadly duels against Imperial

Japanese forces high over the Pacific gave everything they had to

the war effort, and many made the supreme sacrifice. Wings of

Gold pays tribute to their courage, daring, and selfless

dedication. Vividly told, thoroughly researched, and filled with

stirring accounts of the Pacific War’s greatest air battles,

Wings of Gold is an important addition to the annals of

World War II aerial combat.

From the Hardcover edition.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FIRST WINGS

WAR BEGINS

THE  ENGAGEMENTS  BEGIN

FROM TOKYO TO THE  CORAL SEA

THE MIDWAY SIDESHOw

THE BATTLE FOR MIDWAY

GUADALCANAL

TAKING THE OFFENSIVE

FLIGHTS  BACK,  ESCAPES, AND  RESCUES

ANTISUBMARINE WARFARE

INVASION  HAWKS AND  BIRDS OF

THE NIGHT

ACES AND ADVANCES

……

Gerald Astor is the critically acclaimed

military historian and author of Terrible Terry Allen,

The Mighty Eighth, A Blood-Dimmed Tide, The Right

to Fight, The Greatest War, and The Bloody

Forest, among other titles. He lives near New York City.

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“No one does oral history better than Gerald Astor.”

—STEPHEN AMBROSE

“Relying on oral histories and pure literary skill, he tells the

naval aviation story in a compelling fashion that makes this book

special…[He] nearly mak[es] it read like a dramatic novel–a

difficult task indeed.”

-PROCEEDINGS, publication of the U.S. Naval Institute

"Astor is . . . an historian worth reading."

--PACIFIC WAR

From the Hardcover edition.

书籍介绍

From critically acclaimed military historian Gerald Astor comes Wings of Gold , the first account of how the airplane transformed the U.S. Navy and paved the way to victory in the Pacific in World War II. Astor tracks that fateful journey from its humble beginnings in 1910 when Eugene Ely flew the very first plane off the deck of a U.S. Navy ship to the unprecedented air combat missions that helped defeat the Japanese.

Few naval aviators in World War II realized that when they earned their wings of gold they were about to become test pilots for a whole new kind of combat. In their own words, these courageous fliers describe the life-and-death air battles that defined the revolution in naval strategy that rose from the ashes of Pearl Harbor, when fighter pilots watched in horror as Japanese carrier-launched aircraft bombed their planes and airfields into smoking rubble.

While following the pilots’ firsthand reports of air strikes and blazing dogfights across the islands and atolls of the Pacific, Astor explores the ways the U.S. Navy began its momentous transformation before the war. Later, the critical role of aircraft carriers in the stunning U.S. victory at Midway sounded the death knell for conventional naval warfare, yet the public, the press, the Army, and even the president’s advisors refused to recognize the new reality. In fact, only a few in the Navy understood that a new era had begun that would change the face of war forever.

The young Americans who fought the deadly duels against Imperial Japanese forces high over the Pacific gave everything they had to the war effort, and many made the supreme sacrifice. Wings of Gold pays tribute to their courage, daring, and selfless dedication. Vividly told, thoroughly researched, and filled with stirring accounts of the Pacific War’s greatest air battles, Wings of Gold is an important addition to the annals of World War II aerial combat.

From the Hardcover edition.