"Craig Symonds has delivered yet another outstanding work, a work that will set the standard for studies of the Battle of Midway for years to come. Even if one thinks one knows all there is to know about Midway, Mr. Symonds' plethora of new facts, rationales for what and why each side performed the way it did, human interest stories and more
These included six Grumman Avengers, detached to Midway from Hornet ' s VT-8 (Midway was the combat debut of both VT-8 and the Avenger); Marine Scout-Bombing Squadron 241 , consisting of 11 SB2U-3s and 16 SBDs, plus four USAAF B-26s of the 18th Reconnaissance and 69th Bomb Squadrons armed with torpedoes, and 15 B-17s of the 31st, 72nd, and Oct 1, 2011 · Essentially a history of the Pacific war from January to June 1942 (Midway does not enter the picture until 100 pages in), this is a lucid, intensely researched, mildly revisionist account of a significant moment in American military history. Pub Date: Oct. 1, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-19-539793-2. Apr 5, 2016 · 1: THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY: by Craig L. Symonds (2011) Relying on the Midway Roundtable itself for much of his research, Annapolis professor Craig Symonds has produced the best, most up-to-date account of the BOM to be found. Click for a detailed review. May 1, 2018 · Rocking no boats, Symonds agrees that the Allied victory resulted from British stubbornness at the beginning, followed by Russian blood and American industrial production. He adds that brains, luck, and enemy stupidity remained essential, enabling America to turn the tide against Japan in 1942 at Midway and Guadalcanal with inferior forces. Oct 3, 2013 · The Battle of Midway Craig L. Symonds Oxford University Press, Oct 3, 2013 - History - 452 pages There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and 2Ubba. 242 105 434 327 211 57 130 438 121