detailed account of USS Enterprise’s dive-bombers and their decisive role at the Battle of Midway.”
Sunday, December 7, 1941, dawned clear and bright over the Pacific....
But for the Dauntless dive-bomber crews of the USS Enterprise returning to their home base on Oahu, it was a morning from hell. Flying directly into the Japanese ambush at Pearl Harbor, they lost a third of their squadron and witnessed the heart of America’s Navy broken and smoldering on the oil-slicked waters below.
The next six months, from Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway—a dark time during which the Japanese scored victory after victory—this small band of aviators saw almost constant deployment, intense carrier combat, and fearsome casualties...

Another disappointing WWII book for me. Stephen Moore tells the stories of the dive bomber pilots from Enterprise, Yorktown, and Hornet who sank 4 Japanese carriers during the Battle of Midway in June 1942. Certainly it's a story that deserves telling, but I didn't like how Moore plain out got facts wrong, wrote some paragraphs that simply didn't make any sense, jumped around from character to character within paragraphs (making it very confusing to read), and really never answered "why" questions. I would have liked to have seen more analysis and less talk of which plane and which pilot got jumped by Zeros during their dive and what they thought of it. Not to take anything away from the courage of these men, or the other fliers off the carriers, but the US won the Battle of Midway partially by good luck. Several times in this book, Moore raises an issue where people acted poorly, but then never explores those issues, instead talking about the next person in line. ( )