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Dawn Like Thunder The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight Robert Mrazek SoftCov
Dawn Like Thunder The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight Robert J Mrazek
A Dawn Like Thunder
The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight
Robert J. Mrazek
Soft Cover
526 Pages
Copyright 2008
2009 Paperback Edition by Back Bay Books
Contents
Introduction xvii
The Sentinels 1
Smiley 2
The Skipper 12
Swede 25
The Squire 32
Old Langdon 39
Tex 45
Bert and Harry 52
Grant and Whitey 62
Ozzie and Rete 73
Freddy 80
Eventide 85
He That Shall Live This Day and See Old Age 97
When the Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead 159
Sister Sara 190
Dog Day 216
The Galloping Dragon 239
Resurrection Blues 273
On back cover
THEY WERE TYPICAL YOUNG AMERICANS who came from every part of the country to fly an outmoded aircraft that launched unreliable torpedoes against enemy warships. Through a combination of courage, loyalty, comradeship, and sacrifice, this all-but-forgotten torpedo squadron helped change the course of history at the epic battles of Midway and Guadalcanal. In doing so, they became the war's most highly decorated American naval air squadron.
Filled with thrilling scenes of battle and poignant portraits of the ravages of war felt not only by those who fight, but by those who are left behind A Dawn Like Thunder at last brings dramatically to light one of the great untold stories of World War II.
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