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No One Avoided Danger
Wenger, J. Michael; Cressman, Robert J.; Virgilio, John F. Di
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Description for No One Avoided Danger
Num Pages: 188 pages, 213 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 285 x 18. Weight in Grams: 850.
No One Avoided Danger is a detailed combat narrative of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attacks on NAS Kaneohe Bay, one of two naval air stations on the island of O'ahu. Partly because of Kaneohe's location - 15 air miles over a mountain range from the main site of that day's infamous attack on Pearl Harbor - military historians have largely ignored the station's story. Moreover, there is an understandable tendency to focus on the massive destruction sustained by the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The attacks on NAS Kaneohe Bay, however, were equally destructive and no less disastrous, notwithstanding the station's ... Read more
No One Avoided Danger is a detailed combat narrative of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attacks on NAS Kaneohe Bay, one of two naval air stations on the island of O'ahu. Partly because of Kaneohe's location - 15 air miles over a mountain range from the main site of that day's infamous attack on Pearl Harbor - military historians have largely ignored the station's story. Moreover, there is an understandable tendency to focus on the massive destruction sustained by the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The attacks on NAS Kaneohe Bay, however, were equally destructive and no less disastrous, notwithstanding the station's ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Naval Institute Press United States
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Annopolis, United States
ISBN
9781612519241
SKU
V9781612519241
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About Wenger, J. Michael; Cressman, Robert J.; Virgilio, John F. Di
J. Michael Wenger is a military historian who has conducted research since the 1970s in repositories the world over, and received the 2012 U.S. Naval Institute Author of the Year Award. Wenger is the coauthor of ten books and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Naval historian Robert J.Cressman was the recipient of the John Lyman Book Award in ... Read more
Reviews for No One Avoided Danger
“This new book is an unusual and worthwhile treatment of a well-known subject and is hopefully only the first volume in a continuing series of titles that focus on more specific areas of the strike that hurled the U.S. into its most important conflict until the current long-going war against terrorism.” —Naval Aviation News “This is a highly ... Read more