
The First Team
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- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Special Note
- Abbreviations and Special Terms
- PART I: The Early Operations
- 1. Introduction to War
- The Fighting Squadrons: Missions, Men, and Aircraft
- AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NO DRILL
- Pearl Harbor Aftermath
- The Sara to the Front
- 2. "We are in great need of a victory." The Wake Island Operation
- Initial Moves
- The Disappointment
- 3. Interregnum
- The Weeks of Futility
- The Samoan Operation - The Yorktown to the Pacific
- 4. "This Sunday it's our turn to shoot!" The 1 February Raids
- Approach to Battle
- Task Force 8 in the Marshalls
- The Yorktown Strikes
- Return to Pearl
- 5. The Battle off Bougainville: Fighting Three in the South Pacific
- 6. The Enterprise's Central Pacific Raids
- Return to Wake Island
- A Visit to Marcus
- 7. The Lae-Salamaua Raid
- Gathering the Forces
- A Change of Targets
- Withdrawal and the Lexington Home
- 8. The Tokyo Raid
- Preliminaries - Introducing the Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat
- The Advent of Fighting Eight
- PART II: The Battle of the Coral Sea
- 9. Prelude to Battle
- The Yorktown in the Coral Sea, March-April 1942
- Fighting Two to the South Pacific
- 10. Opening Shots
- Coral Sea Preliminaries
- Tulagi Strike
- Gathering Storm: 5-6 May in the Coral Sea
- The Insatiable Enemy
- 11. 7 May 1942
- The Battle of Misima
- Afternoon Reassessment
- The Japanese Dusk Attack
- 12. The Carrier Battle of 8 May
- The Searches
- The Attack on MO Striking Force
- Hey Rube" - The Attack on Task Force 17
- Return of the Srike Groups
- 13. Coral Sea Aftermath
- We Are All Short of Oil, Running Like Hell
- Task Force 16's Anabasis to the South Pacific
- Desire You Proceed to the Hawaiian Area
- Coral Sea Combat Lessons
- PART III: Te Battle of Midway
- 14. Getting Ready for Midway
- The Reorganization of Fighting Three
- The Carriers in Port
- Midway- The Waiting
- 15. The Battle of 4 June
- The Opening Moves
- The Attack on Nagumo's Carriers
- The Japanese Retaliate
- Retribution
- Summary for 4 June
- 16. Midway- The Pursuit
- 5-6 June Off Midway
- The Loss of the Yorktown
- The Sara Back to the Front
- How good land will look this time
- 17. The "First Team" Graduates
- 18. Midway Lessons - The F4F-4 Controversy
- PART IV: Conclusion
- Appendices
- 1. The Making of Carrier Fighter Pilots
- 2. Fundamentals of Aerial Fixed Gunnery
- 3. Fighting Colors, Insignia, and Markings
- 4. Naval Flight Formations and the "Thach Weave
- 5. Japanese Combat Methods
- 6. List of U.S. Navy Fighter Pilots
- 7. Bureau Numbers of FIghter Aircraft in Squadrons Embarked November 1941-June 1942
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
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