Oliver Ormerod Jensen (1914–2005)
Autor de American Album
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Oliver Ormerod Jensen
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1914-04-16
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2005-06-30
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Ithaca, New York, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Chester, Connecticut, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Ithaca, New York, USA
Old Saybrook, Connecticut, USA
New London, Connecticut, USA - Educación
- Yale University (BA)
- Ocupaciones
- editor
- Relaciones
- Stafford, Jean (wife|divorced)
- Organizaciones
- United States Naval Reserve
Life
American Heritage
Library of Congress
Connecticut Valley Railroad
Phi Beta Kappa (mostrar todos 7)
Connecticut Historical Society
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 115
- También por
- 5
- Miembros
- 2,496
- Popularidad
- #10,280
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 8
- ISBNs
- 18
It is the complete story of America’s aircraft carrier Task Force 58, told in stirring narrative form and illustrated with 200 pictures and maps, and features frank discussions of strategy, accounts of personal heroism, and lays bare many new facts of sea war in the Pacific.
Primarily an action story, told in terms of people, dialogue and split-second accounts of air and sea battles, “Carrier War” is nevertheless a comprehensive history of the Central Pacific campaign. It begins with the arrival of the first new carriers at Pearl Harbour and describes the growing power and fury of the Navy’s campaign—through Marcus, Wake, Rabaul, the landings at Tarawa and Kwajalein, the great raids on Truk, Saipan and Palau, the landings at Hollandia, the panoramic battles of the Philippine Sea.
Throughout, Admiral Mar Mitscher’s Task Force 58 is the protagonist, although large parts of the story are built around the adventures of the redoubtable Yorktown and Essex and their two air groups, Five and Nine, whose full war records were released for the first time.
“Carrier War” reveals a great deal about the nature of U.S. naval fliers and their lives. It is a shrewd appraisal of the enemy. It explains in simple, non-technical terms how carriers work and how sea battles are fought. It contains excerpts from ships’ logs, official action reports. Besides the good, it describes the bad, telling how mistakes were made, and corrected. It tells how U.S. ships, as well as the enemy’s, were hit, and contains many exciting stories of how the men were rescued from the sea.… (más)