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Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Seas, Midway, and Guadalcanal
An abundance of new evidence demanded this reevaluation of Frank Jack Fletcher, the ?black shoe? admiral who won his battles at sea but lost the war of public opinion. 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 victorie...more
Hardcover, 638 pages
Published
June 28th 2006
by US Naval Institute Press
(first published June 2006)
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An absolutely excellent book from John Lundstrom. More than any other book I've read, it gives a thoroughly detailed description of the early USN carrier operations, and provides a well-crafted defense of RADM Fletcher. Lundstrom takes great pains to illustrate exactly who knew what during the course of the early WW2 carrier battles, and how communication miscues, misunderstandings, and misperceptions (helped in great measure by postwar historians) to unfairly paint RADM Fletcher as a bumbler ...more
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Lundstrom does an exellent job of one of ww2 most underated Adm. Well researched as all Lunstom histories are.
Deep research, as I expected from Lundstrom. He worked hard to repair the tarnished reputation of one of America's better naval leaders.
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