Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway & Guadalcanal
- ISBN-10
- 1612512208
- ISBN-13
- 9781612512204
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 626
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-03-11
- Publisher
- Naval Institute Press
- Author
- John B Lundstrom
Description
"Drawing on many newly discovered documents, massive dispatch files, and personal papers that no historian has previously used, the author offers not only a fresh look at Fletcher's decisions and actions but also a careful analysis of the effect of radio intelligence on decision making in the carrier battles during the first nine months of the war in the Pacific."--BOOK JACKET.
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