frederick mears (8 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear to covers. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Unknown. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. No dust jacket included with this book. This copy is the First Edition THUS of the published work. This copy is the First Printing of the published work. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover 26x21. Zustand: Gut. 545 Seiten altersentsprechend gebrauchtes gutes Exemplar, Einband leicht berieben/angestoßen, Inhalt ist gut erhalten ha1009643 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1500.

hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, green cloth lettered blue to spine, published in the year following the authors death at Guadalcanal, this remains one of the most highly regarded accounts of naval life on board an American aircraft carrier where he served as a Torpedo Plane pilot. A tightly bound copy in a pictorial dust wrapper that has some loss at head and foot of spine, repaired to the reverse with cellotape and is now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, bookplate of previous ownership to the front free endpaper obscuring part of map and a small address label of a later owner to bottom leading corner of front pastedown else the text is clean and free of markings, maps to endpapers, xvi + 156pp, Scarce.

Mass market paperback. Zustand: Good. First Bal-Hi Printing [stated]. 158, [2] pages. Stamp on top of the first page indication that this is from the library of John F. Lyman, noted naval historian and technical authority. In the firsthand story of a young American pilot who flew with the famous Torpedo Squadron Eight from the deck of the carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) in some of the great battles of the Pacific in World War II. This is how it was to fly and fight with the U. S. Navy's elite attack group, to strike at Japanese ships and planes in pitch battles, and to find your way back across hundreds of miles of open sea to the deck of your own carrier. Lieutenant Mears wrote this book immediately after the events he describes, and it remains the best book by any Navy pilot about the carrier war. Commissioned in October 1941, just two months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (December 1941) the Hornet had a short but legendary career. In April of 1942 she delivered sixteen B-25 bombers, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, for the first air strike on Japan. In May of 1942, Hornet took part in the Battle of the Coral Sea. One month later the carrier was in the Battle for Midway. Her luck ran out in Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on October 26, 1942. Hornet was attacked by a Japanese planes who dropped three bombs on the carrier; she was the last American fleet carrier to be lost in action. On June 28, 1943, shortly after Lieutenant Mears had completed this book, his publishers were informed that he had been killed in the line of duty. Word was also received at that time that Lieutenant Frederick Mears had been posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, which had been issued to him prior to his death but which had not been received by him before he died. From a review posted on-line: This book is a treasure that anyone wishing to know about carrier warfare in the Pacific during WW2 must have. The author was an actual pilot and member of the well-known Torpedo Squadron 8 from the Carrier Hornet. The fact that he was a relatively green, unknown pilot to Commander Waldron, the leader of that ill-fated group, undoubtedly saved his life at the Battle of Midway. Waldron would not allow him to make the first attack with the squadron. Anyone familiar with the battle knows that the first attack was also the last attack made by Waldron's group. His insight into Waldron and the other members of Torpedo 8 as well as his personal views on life aboard an aircraft carrier at war makes for stirring, emotional reading. Unfortunately for the author, Lt. Frederick Mears, he survived Midway only to lose his life in the fighting around Guadalcanal. May their memories never be forgotten.

HARDCOVER. Zustand: Very Good. 1st edition. Stated First Edition. 156pp, map endpapers, small octavo in green cloth. light wear to boards yet clean, light spine fade, tight binding, owner to title page, text clean.

Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Thus. Ballantine U2848.

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First edition of Carrier Combat by Lieutenant Frederick Mears. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xvi, 156pp. Green cloth, title in blue on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Covers slightly bowed, a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.00 retail price on front flap, sunning to spine, a touch of wear to corners. A vibrant example.