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Clear the Deck! Aircraft Carrier Accidents of World War II by Cory Graff, Specialty Press, North Branch, Minn., 2008, $16.95 If Japanese and American carrier pilots displayed remarkable mastery in their early WWII encounters, it reflected the skill they needed just to be able to land aboard the heaving flight decks of their ships. But …
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