Black shoe carrier admiral : Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal

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Label

Black shoe carrier admiral : Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal

Title remainder

Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal

Statement of responsibility

John B. Lundstrom

Creator

• Lundstrom, John B

Subject

• Coral Sea, Battle of the, 1942
• Fletcher, Frank Jack
• Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943
• Aircraft carriers -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American
• Midway, Battle of, 1942

Language

eng

Summary

A surface warrior-- in contrast to a "brown shoe" naval aviator-- Fletcher led the carrier forces that won against all odds at Coral Sea, Midway, and the Eastern Solomons. These and other early carrier victories decided the Pacific War not only because they inflicted crippling losses but also because they denied Japan key strategic positions in the region. Despite these successes, by 1950 Fletcher had become one of the most controversial figures in U.S. naval history and was portrayed as a timid bungler who failed to relieve Wake Island in December 1941 and who deliberately abandoned the Marines at Guadalcanal. 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

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

940.545973

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits

Index

index present

LC call number

D767

LC item number

.L86 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography