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Arctic War Birds Alaska Aviation of WWII by Stephen E. Mills w/ dust jacket
Arctic War Birds Alaska Aviation of WWII by Stephen E. Mills
Arctic War Birds Alaska Aviation of WWII
Stephen E. Mills
Hard Cover w/Dust Jacket
191 Pages
Copyright 1971 1st edition
A pictorial history of bush flying with the military in the defense of Alaska and America
Contents
CHAPTER 1 PRE-WORLD WAR II 13
Alaska's Defenseless Days
CHAPTER 2 SECRET AIR BASE BUILD-UP41
General Simon Buckner's Task
CHAPTER 3 ALASKA'S DARKEST HOUR 57
Japanese Bomb Dutch Harbor
CHAPTER 4 'GRAVEYARD OF AIRCRAFT 73
Million Dollar Valley of Crashes
CHAPTER 5 U.S. NAVY AND SQUEAKY ANDERSON 83
From Catalinas to Yippie Boats
CHAPTER 6 OPERATION LANDCRAB 93
The Invasion of Kiska and Attu
CHAPTER 7 REEVE SUPPLIES THE ALEUTIANS107
Glacier Pilot Becomes ACS Air Force
CHAPTER 8 SHEMYA ARMY AIR BASE119
Important Rock in the Aleutians
CHAPTER 9 CAP : ALASKA'S WAR BABY133
Futile Search For Gillam
CHAPTER 10 POST-WORLD WAR II145
Flying Becomes Alaskan Way of Life
CHAPTER 11 WORLD AIRLINES JUNCTION167
Alaska Is Gateway of Air Age
BIBLIOGRAPHY189
INDEX 190
A Pictorial History of Bush Flying with the Military in the Defense of Alaska And America.
Inside Dust Jacket
Air raid sirens screamed across Unalaska Island the U.S. Navy's hastily sent uncoded message, "About to be bombed," electrified Alaska as Japanese "Zero" fighters and "Kate" dive bombers from the aircraft carrier RYUJO hit Dutch Harbor on June 3, 1942.
The "incident," a Japanese diversionary tactic for the Battle of Midway, resulted in the enemy occupation of Kiska and Attu Aleutian Islands and a costly campaign by United States and Canadian forces to eliminate the only World War II Axis invasion of North America.
It had happened mid 1930 warnings by early strategists Anthony J. Dimond, Billy Mitchell and "Hap" Arnold of possible invasion of Alaska by hostile forces was now a grim reality.
Author Mills pictorially records General Simon Buckner's Alaska air defense build-up with the assistance of veteran bush pilots such as Joe Crosson, Bob Reeve and Art Woodley; how dynamic, hard-hitting Colonel "Eric" Eareckson led a handful of obsolete bombers and fighters in the Kiska Blitz against the Japanese stronghold that pilots of lumbering U.S. Navy flying boats referred to as "The PBY elimination center."
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