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“No one does oral history better than Gerald Astor.”
—STEPHEN AMBROSE

“Relying on oral histories and pure literary skill, he tells the naval aviation story in a compelling fashion that makes this book special…[He] nearly mak[es] it read like a dramatic novel–a difficult task indeed.”

-PROCEEDINGS, publication of the U.S. Naval Institute

"Astor is . . . an historian worth reading."
--PACIFIC WAR

From the Hardcover edition.

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From critically acclaimed military historian Gerald Astor comesWings of Gold, the first account of how the airplanetransformed the U.S. Navy and paved the way to victory in thePacific in World War II. Astor tracks that fateful journey from itshumble beginnings in 1910 when Eugene Ely flew the very first planeoff the deck of a U.S. Navy ship to the unprecedented air combatmissions that helped defeat the Japanese.

Few naval aviators in World War II realized that when they earnedtheir wings of gold they were about to become test pilots for awhole new kind of combat. In their own words, these courageousfliers describe the life-and-death air battles that defined therevolution in naval strategy that rose from the ashes of PearlHarbor, when fighter pilots watched in horror as Japanesecarrier-launched aircraft bombed their planes and airfields intosmoking rubble.

From critically acclaimed military historian Gerald Astor comes
Wings of Gold, the first account of how the airplane
transformed the U.S. Navy and paved the way to victory in the
Pacific in World War II. Astor tracks that fateful journey from its
humble beginnings in 1910 when Eugene Ely flew the very first plane
off the deck of a U.S. Navy ship to the unprecedented air combat
missions that helped defeat the Japanese. 
 
Few naval aviators in World War II realized that when they earned
their wings of gold they were about to become test pilots for a
whole new kind of combat. In their own words, these courageous
fliers describe the life-and-death air battles that defined the
revolution in naval strategy that rose from the ashes of Pearl
Harbor, when fighter pilots watched in horror as Japanese
carrier-launched aircraft bombed their planes and airfields into
smoking rubble. 
 
While following the pilots’ firsthand reports of air strikes and
blazing dogfights across the islands and atolls of the Pacific,
Astor explores the ways the U.S. Navy began its momentous
transformation before the war. Later, the critical role of aircraft
carriers in the stunning U.S. victory at Midway sounded the death
knell for conventional naval warfare, yet the public, the press,
the Army, and even the president’s advisors refused to recognize
the new reality. In fact, only a few in the Navy understood that a
new era had begun that would change the face of war forever. 
 
The young Americans who fought the deadly duels against Imperial
Japanese forces high over the Pacific gave everything they had to
the war effort, and many made the supreme sacrifice. Wings of
Gold pays tribute to their courage, daring, and selfless
dedication. Vividly told, thoroughly researched, and filled with
stirring accounts of the Pacific War’s greatest air battles,
Wings of Gold is an important addition to the annals of
World War II aerial combat. 
 
 
From the Hardcover edition.

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作者简介

Gerald Astor is the critically acclaimed military historian and author of Terrible Terry Allen, The Mighty Eighth, A Blood-Dimmed Tide, The Right to Fight, The Greatest War, and The Bloody Forest, among other titles. He lives near New York City.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FIRST WINGS
WAR BEGINS
THE ENGAGEMENTS BEGIN
FROM TOKYO TO THE CORAL SEA
THE MIDWAY SIDESHOw
THE BATTLE FOR MIDWAY
GUADALCANAL
TAKING THE OFFENSIVE
FLIGHTS BACK, ESCAPES, AND RESCUES
ANTISUBMARINE WARFARE
INVASION HAWKS AND BIRDS OF
THE NIGHT
ACES AND ADVANCES

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