A Dawn Like Thunder (Audiobook)

from hukkleberri

Dramatic, fast- moving story of the Navy and Marine Corps war at Midway and in the Solomons, particularly Guadalcanal.

from EricCostello

One part of this story, I already knew well: the sacrifice of "Torpedo 8" at the Battle of Midway, where obsolete, "sitting duck" torpedo bombers went in and effectively pulled away Japanese fighters, allowing American dive bombers to rip the heart out of the Japanese carrier fleet a few minutes ...

from ABVR

Like the Light Brigade at Balaclava and the 7th Cavalry at the Little Big Horn, Torpedo Squadron 8 achieved immortality through a shattering defeat. On June 4, 1942, fifteen of the squadron's planes took off from the aircraft carrier Hornet, and six more from Midway Island, to attack an oncoming ...

from linedog1848

A Dawn Like Thunder was a really engaging, fast-moving, personal war narrative. It was well written and well researched, and it was the kind of book that made the reader feel, at the end, a little closer to the people who were there--made me feel like I understood much better what it was like to ...

from hukkleberri

Dramatic, fast- moving story of the Navy and Marine Corps war at Midway and in the Solomons, particularly Guadalcanal.