Quote Originally Posted by Geezer View Post
The Big "E" by by Edward P. Stafford
First read of it since I were in The USN back in '64
I was garage sale-ing and found a trove of New Old Stock paperbacks of WWII. I bought a few and may do so again.

What can I say..A lot! It is a book starting just before Pearl Harbor and the Dec 7, 1941 Fiasco and the fight all the way back to Tokyo and the glories and screw-ups of the folks that lived worked, survived and those who died, aboard her and her flight groups.
What is it like in the cockpit of a diving bomber? the spaces cut off by battle damage all around? The mind of the captain? or the Flight Officer, or the pilots? A very personal type of writing not just a battle log. I certainly wish that more politicians could read!
~Richard
I will have to check this one out.