Book recomendations on WW2 in the pacific

The Drifter

the Baron

John Lundstrom's "First Team" books, about US naval aviation in the first six months of 1942, are excellent books to read.   They are, "The First Team", "The First Team:  The Guadalcanal Campaign", and "The First South Pacific Campaign:  Pacific Fleet Strategy, December 1941-June 1942".  I learned about Lundstrom from reading "Shattered Sword".  Parshall and Tully credit Lundstrom with inspiring the line of questioning and research that led them to publish their book.

Brad,

Thank you for posting this. I was told about this series of books and forgot about it until I saw your post. I'm going to hunt these down. Are they in paperback?

Hi, Jeff, sure thing, I hope that helped!  Yes, those are all in paperback, and I bought them all online through Amazon.  A nice feature of "First Team" is the appendices, too.  Lundstrom looks at things like how the camo schemes and markings were applied, and how the Navy trained fighter pilots in aerial gunnery. 

Best regards,

Brad

the Baron

 

 

The Drifter

the Baron

John Lundstrom's "First Team" books, about US naval aviation in the first six months of 1942, are excellent books to read.   They are, "The First Team", "The First Team:  The Guadalcanal Campaign", and "The First South Pacific Campaign:  Pacific Fleet Strategy, December 1941-June 1942".  I learned about Lundstrom from reading "Shattered Sword".  Parshall and Tully credit Lundstrom with inspiring the line of questioning and research that led them to publish their book.

Brad,

Thank you for posting this. I was told about this series of books and forgot about it until I saw your post. I'm going to hunt these down. Are they in paperback?

 

 

 

Hi, Jeff, sure thing, I hope that helped!  Yes, those are all in paperback, and I bought them all online through Amazon.  A nice feature of "First Team" is the appendices, too.  Lundstrom looks at things like how the camo schemes and markings were applied, and how the Navy trained fighter pilots in aerial gunnery. 

Best regards,

Brad

 

Thank you for more insight on these books. I just looked and found them on Amazon. I love reading books that are informative on military concepts, and tactics. Thank you again for the information.

I'm currently reading "Killing the Rising Sun" by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. Very good read about the environment that let to the nuclear bombing of Japan. 

I was familiar with the overall reason, this book really fleshes out the history and background.