Brought to life by the personal accounts of six Navy pilots and one
British POW, this is the history of the U.S. Navy airstrikes on
Japanese-held Hong Kong. Commander John Lamade started the war in
1941 a nervous pilot of an antiquated biplane. Just over three
years later he was in the cockpit of a cutting-edge Hellcat about
to lead a strike force of 80 aircraft through the turbulent skies
above the South China Sea. His target: Hong Kong. As a storm of
antiaircraft fire darkened the sky, watching from below was POW Ray
Jones. For three long years he and his fellow prisoners had endured
near starvation conditions in a Japanese internment camp. Did these
American aircraft, he wondered, herald freedom? Trawling through
historic records, Steven K. Bailey discovered that the story of the
U.S. Navy airstrikes on Japanese-held Hong Kong during the final
year of World War II had never been told. Operation Gratitude
involved nearly 100 U.S. Navy warships and close to a thousand
planes. Target Hong Kong brings this massive operation down to a
human scale by recounting the air raids through the experiences of
seven men whose lives intersected at Hong Kong in January 1945:
Commander John D. Lamade, five of his fellow U.S. Navy pilots and
the POW Ray Jones. Drawing upon oral histories, diary transcripts,
and U.S. Navy documents, this book expertly narrates the
intertwined experiences of these servicemen to bring the history to
life.
General
| Imprint: |
Osprey Publishing
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
2024 |
| Authors: |
Steven K Bailey
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 153mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
352 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4728-6010-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
1-4728-6010-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781472860101 |
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