BOOKS
Carrier Clash
Signed by Eric Hamel
The Battle of the Eastern Solomons was history's third carrier clash, a collision of U.S. Navy and Imperial Navy carriers in August 1942, in the wake of the American invasion of Guadalcanal. Based upon the first half of Hammel's Guadalcanal: the Carrier Battles, this compelling battle narrative incorporates important new information from both Japanese and American sources. Carrier Clash unravles many of the mysteries and misconceptions that have veiled this complex but little-known battle for more than a half-century.
Carrier Clash takes the reader into the air with brave U.S. Navy fighter pilots as they defend their ships against incoming Japanese bombers, into the cockpits of U.S. Navy dive-bombers as they dive on the Imperial Navy light carrier Ryujo, and into firey compartments as the crew of the damaged USS Enterprise battles to keep their bomb-battered ship afloat.
