本书由谷歌软件翻译。中途岛海战被认为是美国海军最伟大的胜利,但光彩背后却是美国鱼雷中队的毁灭性打击。派去攻击日本航母的 51 架飞机中,只有 7 架返回,127 名机组人员中,只有 29 人幸存。没有一枚鱼雷击中目标。 未知的中途岛海战是一个关于可避免的错误和有缺陷的计划的故事,揭示了导致四个鱼雷中队被摧毁但在官方海军报告中被忽略的巨大失败:飞机耗尽了汽油、不起作用的鱼雷、从未投过鱼雷的飞行员以及攻击计划的崩溃。参加这场战役的 Alvin Kernan 对这场大战役的这些以及其他鲜为人知的方面写了一篇令人不安但有说服力的分析。航母战的标准海军战术与战斗的实际进行以及相关舰艇和中队的事后报告形成了悲惨的对比。

The Unknown Battle of Midway : The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons

Kernan, Alvin

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First Edition, PT, 2005

November 11, 2005

“A memoir and more... Kernan brings this maritime battle superbly to life.... And he narrates the air assault in gripping detail” (The Wall Street Journal). The Battle of Midway is considered the greatest US naval victory, but behind the luster is the devastation of the American torpedo squadrons. Of the 51 planes sent to attack Japanese carriers only 7 returned, and of the 127 aircrew only 29 survived. Not a single torpedo hit its target. A story of avoidable mistakes and flawed planning, The Unknown Battle of Midway reveals the enormous failures that led to the destruction of four torpedo squadrons but were omitted from official naval reports: the planes that ran out of gas, the torpedoes that didn't work, the pilots who had never dropped torpedoes, and the breakdown of the attack plan. Alvin Kernan, who was present at the battle, has written a troubling but persuasive analysis of these and other little-publicized aspects of this great battle. The standard navy tactics for carrier warfare are revealed in tragic contrast to the actual conduct of the battle and the after-action reports of the ships and squadrons involved. “An incisive and laconic writer, Kernan knows his facts and presents them with deep feeling. A World War II must-read.” —Booklist “I read The Unknown Battle of Midway in one sitting. It is a momentous piece of work, reeking of the authenticity of carrier warfare as experienced by the flight crews.” —Sir John Keegan, author of A History of Warfare “An emotionally powerful story, not merely one of war but of its lasting effects.” —The Times Literary Supplement

Author of a notable war memoir (Crossing the Line, 1994), Kernan returns to1942's Battle of Midway, in which he was ordnance man on the aircraft carrier Enterprise. Considered the strategic turning point of the Pacific War, Midway is seen by military historians as an improbable American victory, one marred by the near-total annihilation of American torpedo bomber squadrons and whose story, Kernan remarks, has never been thoroughly studied. Because of the obsolescence of torpedo, or "Devastator," planes, mounting a coordinated strike was the pilots'only hope of survival, one that failed to materialize due to snafus that Kernan grimly but rivetingly relates. Attacking alone, the Devastators had the sacrificial effect of distracting Japanese fighter planes from dive bombers that eventually sank the Japanese carriers. "In the years since," Kernan writes, "this unintended action has become the official justification for the tragedy." Those justifications are the telling component in Kernan's autopsy, as he detects deceptions between the lines of after-action reports. An incisive and laconic writer, Kernan knows his facts and presents them with deep feeling. A World War II must-read.

"The Battle of Midway is considered the greatest U.S. naval victory, but behind the luster is the devastation of the American torpedo squadrons. Of the 51 planes sent to attack Japanese carriers only 7 returned, and of the 126 aircrew only 29 survived. Not a single torpedo hit its target."
"A story of avoidable mistakes and flawed planning, The Unknown Battle of Midway reveals the enormous failures that led to the destruction of four torpedo squadrons but were omitted from official naval reports: the planes that ran out of gas, the torpedoes that didn't work, the pilots who had never dropped torpedoes, and the breakdown of the attack plan. Alvin Kernan, who was present at the battle, has written a troubling but persuasive analysis of these and other little-publicized aspects of this great battle."--Jacket.

On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy made a surprise attack on the American Pacific Fleet tied up in Pearl Harbor at Ford Island, the pearl at the center of the deep inlet.

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