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Chargement... Hell from the Heavens: The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II's Greatest Kamikaze Attack (édition 2016)par John Wukovits (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreHell from the Heavens: The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II's Greatest Kamikaze Attack par John Wukovits
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is the story of the USS Laffey and WW I's greatest Kamikaze attack against a single vessel. Twenty- two different Japanese planes attacked the vessel in a period of 80 minutes with eight of them actually crashing into the ship or dropping a bomb on her. Wukovits commences his story with the construction of the ship followed by the selection of her captain, officers and crew. Then he moves on to her training and first experience in war on D-Day off Normandy. Following her action off the coast of France, she went to the Pacific where she took part in battles around the Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and the coast of Japan. When she was assigned picket duty off of Okinawa which put her between the Pacific Fleet and Japan, her role was to warn of kamikaze assaults that were on the way. The Japanese fliers were usually inexperienced and attacked the first vessel they spotted which in this instance was the Laffey, The Laffey gunners managed to shoot down the first eight attackers while receiving minimal damaged but eventually some planes of the twenty-two attackers made it through and that is when the episodes of heroism and death took place. Called the ship that would not die, the Laffey may be visited at the Patriots Point Maritime Museum in Charleston, NC. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Looking toward the heavens, the destroyer crew saw what seemed to be the entire Japanese Air Force assembled directly above. Hell was about to be unleashed on them in the largest single-ship kamikaze attack of World War II. On April 16, 1945, the crewmen of the USS Laffey were battle hardened and prepared. They had engaged in combat off the Normandy coast in June 1944. They had been involved in three prior assaults of enemy positions in the Pacific-at Leyte and Lingayen in the Philippines and at Iwo Jima. They had seen kamikazes purposely crash into other destroyers and cruisers in their unit and had seen firsthand the bloody results of those crazed tactics. But nothing could have prepared the crew for this moment-an eighty-minute ordeal in which the single small ship was targeted by no fewer than twenty-two Japanese suicide aircraft. By the time the unprecedented attack on the Laffey was finished, thirty-two sailors lay dead, more than seventy were wounded, and the ship was grievously damaged. Although she lay shrouded in smoke and fire for hours, the Laffey somehow survived, and the gutted American warship limped from Okinawa's shore for home, where the ship and crew would be feted as heroes. Using scores of personal interviews with survivors, the memoirs of crew members, and the sailors' wartime correspondence, historian and author John Wukovits breathes life into the story of this nearly forgotten historic event. The US Navy described the kamikaze attack on the Laffey "as one of the great sea epics of the war." In Hell from the Heavens, the author makes the ordeal of the Laffey and her crew a story for the ages. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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10/10 Will read it again sometime. ( )