Pacific Payback, Stephen L. Moore
Pacific Payback, Stephen L. Moore
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Pacific Payback
The Carrier Aviators Who Avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway

Author: Stephen L. Moore

Narrator: Don Hagen

Unabridged: 12 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 07/01/2014


Synopsis

Sunday, December 7, 1941, dawned clear and bright over the Pacific....

But for the Dauntless dive-bomber crews of the USS Enterprise returning to their home base on Oahu, it was a morning from hell. Flying directly into the Japanese ambush at Pearl Harbor, they lost a third of their squadron and witnessed the heart of America’s Navy broken and smoldering on the oil-slicked waters below.

The next six months, from Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway—a dark time during which the Japanese scored victory after victory—this small band of aviators saw almost constant deployment, intense carrier combat, and fearsome casualties. Many were killed by enemy Zero fighters, antiaircraft fire, or deadly crash landings in the Pacific, while others were captured and spent years in POW camps. Yet the Enterprise’s Dauntless crews would be the first to strike an offensive blow against Japanese installations in the Marshall Islands, would be the first to sink a Japanese warship, and would shepherd the Doolittle Raiders’ bombing of Tokyo.

Not until Midway, though, would Dauntless crews get the chance to settle the score. In June 1942, Japan mobilized the best of its Navy to draw out the smaller American carrier fleet for a final showdown designed to destroy the U.S. Navy once and for all. What they didn’t anticipate was the gutsy dive-bombing pilots and gunners whose courage and skill would change the course of World War II.

Drawing on dozens of new interviews and oral histories, author Stephen L. Moore brings to life inspiring stories of individual sacrifice and bravery—and the sweeping saga of one of America’s greatest triumphs.

About Stephen L. Moore

Stephen L. Moore, a sixth generation Texan, is the author of eighteen previous books on World War II and Texas history and is a contributing writer for the Dallas Morning News. He graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, where he studied advertising, marketing, and journalism. Steve lives north of Dallas in Lantana, Texas, with his wife and three children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by C.H.

After having read Shattered Sword, this book gave me another comprehensive look at the Battle of Midway from the perspective of the Dauntless dive bomber pilots flying off the Enterprise, the Yorktown, and the Hornet. Exhaustively researched and well written, the book humanized the great cost of that......more

Goodreads review by Jeff

Another disappointing WWII book for me. Stephen Moore tells the stories of the dive bomber pilots from Enterprise, Yorktown, and Hornet who sank 4 Japanese carriers during the Battle of Midway in June 1942. Certainly it's a story that deserves telling, but I didn't like how Moore plain out got facts......more