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Holding the Line by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver Naval Air campaign in Korea w/DJ
Holding the Line by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
The naval air campaign in Korea
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
320 pages
Copyright 2019
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations6
Foreword by Dr. Richard P Hallion8
Introduction
Chapter 1: Climb Angels Two-Five Buster! 18
Chapter 2: The Revolt of the Admirals27
Chapter 3: Forging a New Sword53
Chapter 4: Naval Aviation Saves Itself74
Chapter 5: Defeat Looms85
Chapter 6: Inchon103
Chapter 7: A Whole New War122
Chapter 8: Disaster136
Chapter 9: Holding the Line153
Chapter 10: The Battle of Carlson's Canyon and the Hwachon Dam167
Chapter 11: Weekend Warriors176
Chapter 12: Operation Strangle196
Chapter 13: "Death Valley"209
Chapter 14: Who Owns the Night?224
Chapter 15: The Cherokee244
Chapter 16: The West Coast258
Chapter 17: The Marine War277
Chapter 18: The End in Sight296
Chapter 19: The War Assessed307
Bibliography 311
Index313
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FJ-I Fury aboard USS Boxer in 1948.
Convair B-36 intercontinental bomber.
Jesse L. Brown, Jr., the US Navy's first African-American naval aviator.
Lockheed PZV-3 Neptune on takeoff from USS Midway.
FJ-I Furies aboard USS Princeton in 1949.
Ryan FR-1 "Fireball" fighter.
McDonnell FZH-2P Banshee.
HMS Triumph and her air group in 1950.
Royal Navy Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 that operated from HMAS Sydney.
F9F-3 Panthers aboard USS Valley Forge, 1950.
VA-195 AD-3 Skyraider aboard USS Princeton, c.1950.
USS Juneau replenishing at Sasebo, summer 1950.
F9F-2. Panther aboard USS Philippine Sea, July 4, 1950.
F9F-2, prepares to launch from USS Valley Forge, July 19, 1950.
Il-10 abandoned at Kimpo airfield, September 1950.
F4U-4B overflying US ships at Inchon, Korea, September 15, 1950.
Ed Jackson landing aboard USS Philippine Sea on September 17, 1950.
USS Valley Forge and USS Leyte at Sasebo, October 1950.
F4U-4 Corsair crashes off Valley Forge, October 22, 1950.
AD-3 Skyraider armed with two 1,000lb bombs and eight 100lb fragmentation bombs.
Bombs explode around the Sinuiju bridge, November 1950.
North Korean train strafed and bombed by Navy fliers.
VMF(N)- 5 3 plane, November 2, 1950.
VF-31 pilots aboard USS Leyte belting cannon shells, November 7, 1950.
USS Valley Forge prepares to depart San Diego, December 1950.
Douglas AD-4 Skyraider explodes on USS Philippine Sea, December 12, 1950.
Sikorsky HO 3S-I "Horse , December 13, 1950.
USS Missouri fires a broadside, December 26, 1950.
VMF-323 Corsairs of USS Sicily during the Pusan Perimeter fighting.
Modified AD-4Q Skyraider aboard USS Essex, 1951.
AD-2 Skyraiders bomb a rail target in North Korea, 1951.
Downed bridge in "Carlson's Canyon," March 1951.
VA-195 Skyraider with aerial torpedo, April 1951.
Lt(jg) Ed Phillips of VA-195, April 1951.
Hwachon Dam struck by VA-195, May 1, 1951.
AD-4 Skyraider landing aboard USS Bon Homme Richard, July 3, 1951.
F9F-z Panthers from USS Boxer over North Korea, July 15, 1951.
F9F-zB and F9F-2P return to USS Boxer, August 6, 1951.
USS Essex on fire off Korea, September 1951.
F4U-4 Corsairs over USS Boxer, September 4, 1951.
Ordnancemen on USS Bon Homme Richard fuse bombs, November 10, 1951.
F4U-4 Corsair ready for catapult launch from USS Bataan.
Two F9F-z jets from USS Essex over Korea in 1951-52.
USS Buck, USS Missouri and USS St. Paul off the coast of Korea, 1952.
Snowy weather aboard USS Essex, January 18, 1952.
Neil A. Armstrong in his USNR uniform, May 23, 1952.
USS Barton with USS Philippine Sea and USS Missouri, July I, 1952.
F6F-5K drone and its AD-4 Skyraider control aircraft aboard USS Boxer, August 1952.
AJ-I Savage attack plane aboard USS Oriskany, August 29, 1952.
1st Marine Air Wing planes assault hill positions, October 1, 1952.
Four Banshees fly over USS Kearsarge, October 29, 1952.
Grumman F9F-z Panther bombs a bridge, November 1952.
Ordnancemen load bombs on an AD-4 Skyraider, November 25, 1952.
Two F2H-2 Banshees over North Korea, January 5, 1953.
Snowy flight deck of USS Oriskany, January 10, 1953.
USS Philippine Sea, May 1953.
Skyraiders of VF-194 aboard USS Boxer, June 1, 1953.
Guy P. Bordelon.
USS Valley Forge underway in 1950.
DUST JACKET
Early on the morning of Sunday, June 25, 1950, North Korean forces crossed the 38th Parallel, rapidly overrunning much of South Korea in the weeks that followed. With the South Korean army on the brink of chaos and piecemeal US reinforcements completely overwhelmed, it was only US airpower, particularly naval airpower, that would slow the tide of invading troops, providing vital breathing space for the hastily regrouping UN forces within the Pusan Perimeter.
It was also naval aviation, in the form of Navy squadrons aboard the fleet carriers of Task Force 77 and Marine squadrons aboard escort carriers and on shore, that provided the decisive edge as the United Nations battled to overcome an overwhelming Chinese advantage in manpower after the entry of Chinese "volunteers" into the war in November 1950.
And yet again, in the desperate fighting during the first half of 1951, as United Nations forces struggled to contain the enemy and establish a defensive line on the 38th Parallel that divided North and South Korea, naval aviation played a crucial role.
Holding the Line tells the full story of the US Navy and Marine Corps' war in Korea from the first day of the war to the last, not only chronicling the front-line action, but also describing the technical development of aircraft and shipboard operations, and how these all affected the broader strategic situation on the Korean Peninsula.
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