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Carrier Strike
By Eric Hamel
Signed by Eric Hamel
The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, a strategic naval action in the bitter Guadalcanal Campaign, was history's fourth carrier-versus-varrier naval battle. Though technically a Japanese victory, the battle proved to be the Empire of Japan's last serious attempt to win the Pacific War by means of an all-out carrier confrontation. It was at Coral Sea in May 1942 that Japan's juggernaut across the Pacific was blunted. It was at Midway in June that Japan's great carrier fleet was cut down to manageable size. And it was at Eastern Solomons in August and Santa Cruz in October that Japan's last best carrier air groups were ground to dust. The Imperial Navy's "victory" at Santa Cruz cost Japan her last best hope to win the war in the Pacific.
Carrier Strike takes the reader into the air with brave U.S. Navy fighter pilots as they defend their ships, into the cockpits of U.S. Navy carrier bombers as they dive on Imperial Navy warships, and into firey comparments as the crews of the American carriers fight to keep their bomb- and torpedo-battered ships afloat.
