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The silver waterfall, how America won the war in the Pacific at Midway, Brendan Simms and Steve McGregor

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The silver waterfall, how America won the war in the Pacific at Midway, Brendan Simms and Steve McGregor

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-276) and index

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contains biographical information

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

The silver waterfall

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bibliography

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Brendan Simms and Steve McGregor

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how America won the war in the Pacific at Midway

Summary

The stunning and decisive battle of Midway was perhaps the most crucial naval battle in the Pacific theater during World War II. Walter Lord explained away the US victory at Midway against a numerically superior and apparently more skilled Japanese fleet due to 'Lady Luck.' Here, historians Brendan Simms and Steve McGregor show how the forces of industrial dynamism and innovation were central to the US being able to win the war in the Pacific. Engineers, machinists, test pilots, and a willingness to experiment at scale were vital to the creation of the decisive element that would sink the hopes of Japan along with the pride of their aircraft carrier fleet: the Douglas Dauntless Dive Bomber, whose vicious near vertical plummet from the sky to deliver a brutally accurate attack was the "silver waterfall" that the Japanese quickly came to dread. The Silver Waterfall offers a revelatory new history of Midway, showing that if the Americans were lucky, they made their own luck

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How America won the war in the Pacific at Midway

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