U.S. Navy’s Air War in the Pacific: White-Knuckle Countdown to Peace

From our 2015 Archives: Writer David Sears, author of our September/October’s “Going Long” about the 2nd Raiders, discusses the intense navy air warfare over the Pacific that helped the Allies establish victory over the unrelenting Japanese kamikaze fighters. From his Hellcat, over coastal Honshū—the main Japanese home island—U.S. Navy Lieutenant (junior grade) Henry J. O’Meara …

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