"An Exciting, Dramatic Tale Of Action... Just About The Best Record Of Sea-Air War." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings
Aircraft Carrier
This exceptional minute-by-minute diary of the action aboard the Yorktown tells the amazing story of men facing danger daily. It's all here--the jokes to deal with fear, the superstitions, the intense interdependence, the excited pilots returning from successful strikes, the blasting of daily life by enemy attacks.
J. Bryan, III, a well-known journalist, served as a Lieutenant Commander on the Yorktown. The story he tells is one of the most amazing accounts of young men in war.
"Intensely Interesting And Fascinating... One Of The Best Stories Of The Human Side OF Shipboard LIfe During War COnditions That Has Been Published."
Admiral William F. Halsey