Read The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh Online
Authors: Winston Groom
Tags: #History, #Military, #Aviation, #Biography & Autobiography, #General, #Transportation
Maps by Carl Mehler and Gregory Ugiansky, National Geographic.
Map Sources
General sources
Ballard, Robert D.
Graveyards of the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Bikini Atoll
. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2001.
Theater of War in the Pacific Ocean
. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 1942.
Doolittle Raid
USS Enterprise CV-6 the Most Decorated Ship of the Second World War
. Action Report (Serial 008)-18 April, 1942. Available online at
www.cv6.org/ship/logs/action19420418-88.htm
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USS Enterprise, Track from 1200 April 13—-0800 April 21, 1942
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General Doolittle’s Report on Japanese Raid April 18, 1942
. Available online at
www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/rep/Doolittle/Report.html
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Table of Contents
Map of Pacific Theater in World War II
THREE: The Man with the Outside Loop
FIVE: Air Combat Is Not Sport, It Is Scientific Murder
SEVEN: Man’s Greatest Enemy in the Air
EIGHT: I Was Saved for Some Good Purpose
NINE: An Inspiration in a Grubby World
TEN: His Halo Turned into a Noose
TWELVE: We Were Slowly Rotting Away
THIRTEEN: The Lone Eagle Goes to War