Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-DEC-03
Format: Online - approximately 640 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Richmond, Larry
Article Excerpt
By James W. Vernon. Annapolis Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Photographs. Index. Pp.202. $28.95. ISBN: 1-55750-865-8.
When told of the successful strike on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto supposedly said he feared the Japanese had awakened a sleeping giant and "filled him with a terrible resolve." Yamamoto's fear was well grounded. While a peacetime United States built only about 2000 aircraft in 1940, the war-aroused nation produced a staggering 96,000 airplanes in 1944. In The Hostile Sky, Vernon provides a highly readable description of the system that produced thousands of well-trained pilots to man the flood of airplanes...
NOTE: All illustrations and photos have been removed from this article.
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