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A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway
出版HarperCollins, 2017-05-23
主題Biography & Autobiography / MilitaryHistory / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / Pacific TheaterHistory / Military / United StatesHistory / Military / NavalHistory / Military / VeteransBiography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
ISBN00626923649780062692368
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=CS7eDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The bomber pilot whose bravery in the Battle of Midway changed the course of WWII recounts his story in this extraordinary memoir: “An instant classic” (Dallas Morning News).

On June 4, 1942, above the tiny Pacific atoll of Midway, Lt. (j.g.) “Dusty” Kleiss piloted his SBD Dauntless into a near-vertical dive aimed at the heart of Japan’s Imperial Navy. The greatest naval battle in history raged around him as the U.S. desperately searched for its first major victory of the Second World War. Then, in a matter of seconds, Dusty Kleiss’s daring 20,000-foot dive helped forever alter the war’s trajectory.

Amid blistering anti-aircraft fire, the twenty-six-year-old pilot zeroed in on the aircraft carrier Kaga, one of Japan’s most important capital ships. He released three bombs at the last possible instant, then desperately pulled out of his gut-wrenching dive as Kaga erupted in an inferno.

Dusty returned to the air that same afternoon, fatally striking the enemy carrier, Hiryu. Two days later, he contributed to the destruction of the cruiser Mikuma, making Dusty the only pilot from either side to sink three ships. By battle’s end, the humble young sailor from Kansas had earned his place in history—and yet he stayed silent for decades.

Now his long-awaited memoir, Never Call Me a Hero, tells the Navy Cross recipient’s full story for the first time, offering an unprecedentedly intimate look at the “the decisive contest for control of the Pacific in World War II” (New York Times)—and one man’s essential role in helping secure its outcome.