Hell Divers: Navy Dive Bombers at War

by John F. Forsyth

The author, the pilot of a dive bomber during World War II, describes his experiences at Coron Bay, Formosa, Leyte, Luzon, and other naval air battles

160 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1991

Reviews

[Jessica Jencks · Rating 5 out of 5]

Chapter 16: Padding to the Palawan is especially significant to me as the “Ralph Johnson” the author speaks of, is my Grandfather. He never spoke of this to us, but having this memoir helps us understand and appreciate what he endured- and why he never wanted to talk about it. I’m very proud of my grandfather and the rest of the soldiers who also “played cat and mouse with Japanese soldiers” and am eternally grateful to the islanders who were willing to endanger themselves and families to save these strangers in hopes the US would ultimately free them.

[Cindy Lu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Crazy old gal who loves anything military - and really love military history.

[Brady Showaker]

The book that i read is Hell Divers: Navy Dive Bombers at War it is about people in the navy that go and drop bombs and they get on planes and go dive bomb out in the middle of a field they are trained to dive bomb. There are pilots and planes that are going to drop bombs in a target and want to save america. The planes are different than other planes they have two stripes and a star in the middle and have a number on the back of the tail dive bombers have to train by landing on a target the planes go low for the dive bomber to be safe.

What i liked about the book is how dive bombers are usually successful at their jobs had how they can affect our daily lives by dropping bombs on bad people and saving America. What i dislike about the book is how Tough the plane is to fly, poorly designed, and delivered too slowly. the early models of the planes would have come somewhere near the top of most lists of worst aircraft of world war two I also hated the name of it, it was called Curtiss SB2C.
I would recommend this book because if someone wants to be a dive bomber then they learn from the book so they can also become a professional dive bomber and save america. I would recommend this to the military and our U.S. armies in case if they have to do a dive bomb (in case we have a war any time soon). I would recommend this book to all of the people in america because this a book that you need to read it is a good book and to remember world war two.