Sinking the Rising Sun: Dog Fighting and Dive Bombing in World War II - Tapa dura

Davis, William

 
9780760329467: Sinking the Rising Sun: Dog Fighting and Dive Bombing in World War II
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ISBN 10: 076032946X ISBN 13: 9780760329467
Editorial: Zenith Press, 2007

Sinopsis

William Davies was in college at the time of Pearl Harbor. He volunteered for the Navel Air Corp, and served in the Pacific. This is his gripping true-life story: combat operations, escorting dive-bombers and squadrons, dogfights, heroics in the cockpit whilst facing a deadly enemy. Davis squadron lost only two planes whilst destroying 155 enemy ones, and the immediacy of these life-and-death struggles is bought vividly to life in his own words, which include a successful attack on the Zuikaku, the last Japanese aircraft carrier left from the Pearl Harbor attack.

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Bill Davis was a senior in college when the attack on Pearl Harbor took place. He volunteered for the Naval Air Corps, and ended up being credited as one of those who sank the Zuikaku, the last Japanese carrier afloat that had taken part in the Pearl Harbor attack. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.
 

 
In 1953, Jonathan Winters headed for New York for the “big time” with $56.46 in his pocket. Then came The Jack Paar Show, The Steve Allen Show, and The Tonight Show, where Jonathan was able to demonstrate his comic genius. He became a top name in American comedy. Jonathan and his wife Eileen have two children and five grandchildren. They live in Santa Barbara, where Jonathan paints and writes when he is not performing.
Foreword by the legendary Jonathan Winters, a good friend of the author's with more than five decades in show business. He enlisted in the Marines in 1943, and was an orderly and a gunner on the U.S.S. Bon Homme Richard. "I never got to land or take off," Winters quips, "but I saw a lot of planes."

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Lieutenant William Davis III of the United States Naval Reserve was awarded the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism" while serving as pilot of a carrier-based fighter aircraft on October 25, 1944. "Flying through intense anti-aircraft fire," the citation reads, "he made an aggressive attack on a Japanese carrier, first strafing and then delivering a well placed bomb from low altitude. After this attack the carrier was left burning and subsequently sank." The burning carrier was the Zuikaku, the last Japanese carrier afloat that had taken part in the Pearl Harbor attack. Here is a fighter pilot's view of World War II, told in colorful language and gripping detail. His is a story of "courage and skill . . . in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval service," as his citation noted. It is also a rare true-life account of what such heroics feel like behind a cockpit, in the face of a deadly enemy. Sinking the Rising Sun includes a foreword by his friend and fellow World War II veteran, the legendary Jonathan Winters.

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Editorial
Zenith Press
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
076032946X
ISBN 13 
9780760329467
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
304
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