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Rain of Steel - Mitscher's Task Force 58 Ugaki's Thunder Gods and the Kamikaze War off Okinawa (Hardcover)
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Rain of Steel - Mitscher's Task Force 58 Ugaki's Thunder Gods and the Kamikaze War off Okinawa (Hardcover)
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The last Pacific campaign of World War II was the most violent on
record. Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher's Task Force 58 carriers had
conducted air strikes on mainland Japan and supported the Iwo Jima
landings, but his aviators were sorely tested once the Okinawa
campaign commenced on 1 April 1945. Rain of Steel follows Navy and
Marine carrier aviators in the desperate air battles to control the
kamikazes directed by Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki. The latter would
unleash ten different Kikusui aerial suicide operations, one
including a naval force built around the world's most powerful
battleship, the 71,000-ton Yamato. These battles are related
largely through the words and experiences of some of the last
living U.S. fighter aces of World War II. More than 1,900 kamikaze
sorties--and thousands more traditional attack aircraft--would be
launched against the U.S. Navy's warships, radar picket ships, and
amphibious vessels during the Okinawa campaign. In this time, Navy,
Marine, and Army Air Force pilots would claim some 2,326 aerial
victories. The most successful four-man fighter division in U.S.
Navy history would be crowned during the fight against Ugaki's
kamikazes. The Japanese named the campaign tetsu no ame (""rain of
steel""), often referred to in English as "typhoon of steel.
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