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Intrepid - The Epic Story of America's Most Legendary Warship (Paperback)
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Intrepid - The Epic Story of America's Most Legendary Warship (Paperback)
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The first official history of the legendary aircraft carrier that
fought in World War II and Vietnam and continues to serve as a
major air and space museum in New York City
The USS "Intrepid" is a warship unlike any other. Since her
launching in 1943, the 27,000-ton, "Essex"-class aircraft carrier
has sailed into harm's way around the globe. During World War II,
she fought her way across the Pacific--Kwajalein, Truk, Peleliu,
Formosa, the Philippines, Okinawa--surviving kamikaze and torpedo
attacks and covering herself with glory. The famous ship endured to
become a Cold War attack carrier, recovery ship for America's first
astronauts, and a three-tour combatant in Vietnam.
In a riveting narrative based on archival research and interviews
with surviving crewmen, authors Bill White and Robert Gandt take us
inside the war in the Pacific. We join "Intrepid"'s airmen at the
Battle of Leyte Gulf, in October 1944, as they gaze in awe at the
apparitions beneath them: five Japanese battleships, including the
dreadnoughts "Yamato" and "Musashi," plus a fleet of heavily
armored cruisers and destroyers. The sky fills with multihued
bursts of anti-aircraft fire. The flak, a Helldiver pilot would
write in his action report, "was so thick you could get out and
walk on it." Half a dozen "Intrepid" aircraft are blown from the
sky, but they sink the "Musashi. "A few months later, off Okinawa,
they" "again meet her sister ship, the mighty "Yamato." In a
two-hour tableau of hellfire and towering explosions, "Intrepid"'s
warplanes help send the super-battleship and 3,000 Japanese crewmen
to the bottom of the sea.
We're next to nineteen-year-old Alonzo Swann in Gun Tub 10 aboard
"Intrepid" as he peers over the breech of a 20-mm anti-aircraft
gun. He's heard of kamikazes, but until today he's never seen one.
Swann and his fellow gunners are among the few African Americans
assigned to combat duty in the U.S. Navy of 1944. Blazing away at
the diving Japanese Zero, Swann realizes with a dreadful certainty
where it will strike: directly into Gun Tub 10.
The authors follow "Intrepid"'s" "journey to Vietnam. "MiG-21
high!" crackles the voice of Lt. Tony Nargi in his F-8 Crusader. It
is 1968, and "Intrepid" is again at war. Launching from Yankee
Station in the Tonkin Gulf, Nargi and his wingman have intercepted
a flight of Russian-built supersonic fighters. Minutes later, after
a swirling dogfight over North Vietnam, Nargi--and "Intrepid"--have
added another downed enemy airplane to their credit.
"Intrepid: The Epic Story of America's Most Legendary Warship
"brings a renowned ship to life in a stirring tribute complete with
the personal recollections of those who served aboard her, dramatic
photographs, time lines, maps, and vivid descriptions of
"Intrepid"'s deadly conflicts. More than a numbers-and-dates
narrative, "Intrepid" is the story of people--those who sailed in
her, fought to keep her alive, perished in her defense--and
powerfully captures the human element in this saga of American
heroism.
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