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Helldivers: US Navy Dive-Bombers at War
What a ride!
Strap into the cramped cockpit of a dive-bomber and fly wing as author John F. Forsyth leads you straight down through the blazing guns of the Japanese fleet to plant your bombs on the deck of the super battleship Musachi.
Forsyth flew an SB2C Helldiver for Bombing Squadron 18, the "Sunday Punchers," from the deck of the USS Intrepid. Along with the other pilots and airmen of Air Group 18, he played a part in winning some of the greatest naval air battles of World War II - Coron Bay, Formosa (Taiwan), Leyte, Luzon and many others.
Helldivers is a collection of the best combat stories from these battles. Stories of sinking ships, of dogfighting with Zeros, of Kamikaze attacks, of comrades shot down, of those who escaped and made it back and those who were lost. The action was real and the recollections are vivid. Helldivers brings you the naval air war in the Pacific as it really happened.
Author John F. Forsyth flew Helldivers and Corsairs for the US Navy from 1943 to 1945. He was awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, three Distinguished flying Crosses and four Air Medals. After discharge from the Navy, he attended Harvard Law School, graduating i 1948. He has since practiced law in the Rochester, New York and Naples, Florida areas.
Strap into the cramped cockpit of a dive-bomber and fly wing as author John F. Forsyth leads you straight down through the blazing guns of the Japanese fleet to plant your bombs on the deck of the super battleship Musachi.
Forsyth flew an SB2C Helldiver for Bombing Squadron 18, the "Sunday Punchers," from the deck of the USS Intrepid. Along with the other pilots and airmen of Air Group 18, he played a part in winning some of the greatest naval air battles of World War II - Coron Bay, Formosa (Taiwan), Leyte, Luzon and many others.
Helldivers is a collection of the best combat stories from these battles. Stories of sinking ships, of dogfighting with Zeros, of Kamikaze attacks, of comrades shot down, of those who escaped and made it back and those who were lost. The action was real and the recollections are vivid. Helldivers brings you the naval air war in the Pacific as it really happened.
Author John F. Forsyth flew Helldivers and Corsairs for the US Navy from 1943 to 1945. He was awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, three Distinguished flying Crosses and four Air Medals. After discharge from the Navy, he attended Harvard Law School, graduating i 1948. He has since practiced law in the Rochester, New York and Naples, Florida areas.
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