Scratch One Flattop: The First Carrier Air Campaign and the Battle of the Coral Sea - Hardcover
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Scratch One Flattop: The First Carrier Air Campaign and the Battle of the Coral Sea
By the beginning of May 1942, five months after the Pearl Harbor attack, the US Navy was ready to challenge the Japanese moves in the South Pacific. When the Japanese sent troops to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, the Americans sent the carriers Lexington and Yorktown to counter the move, setting the stage for the Battle of the Coral Sea.
In Scratch One Flattop: The First Carrier Air Campaign...
Robert C. Stern has been writing about 20th-century naval history for more than 35 years. Among his books are The US Navy and the War in Europe (2012), Fire from the Sky: Surviving the Kamikaze Threat (2010), Destroyer Battles: Epics of Naval Close Combat (2008) and The Hunter Hunted: Submarine versus Submarine Encounters from World War I to the Present (2007).
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