One Damned Island After Another

Clive Howard, Joe Whitley

• Publisher: Barajima Books
• Year: 2020
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781839741999
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

One Damned Island After Another, first published in 1946, opens in "Paradise"—the island of Oahu—in the early morning of December 7, 1941, when Technician Third Class Joe Lockard and Private George Elliott, in their radar truck, tried desperately to tell the Information Center at Fort Shafter that the pips on their oscilloscope meant something big and dangerous. That was the beginning of the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor. From the old Hawaiian Air Department, and from the chaos and ruin of Hickam and Wheeler and Bellows airfields, the Seventh Air Force came into being. It faced, in the central Pacific, the largest water theater in the world - sixteen million square miles, five times the size of the United States. The Americans patched up their planes as best they could and began to fly the "Atoll Circuit, " the low-lying, white sand atolls and the first stepping stones on the long road to Tokyo. In this huge area and against a fearsome opponent, the men of the Seventh were forced to fly the longest missions in any theater of war, entirely over water and, at first, without fighter escort. They fought at Midway, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Truk, Saipan, Palau, the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and finally Tokyo. One Damned Island After Another is the story of the fighting men who contributed to the eventual winning of the war in the Pacific.

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• CHAPTER 1 - A Quiet Sunday Morning
• CHAPTER 2 - Red Suns on Their Wings
• CHAPTER 3 - “I Never Was So Scared”
• CHAPTER 4 - Monday in Paradise
• CHAPTER 5 - “Defend! Defend!”
• CHAPTER 6 - A Mission for Morale
• CHAPTER 7 - The Atoll Circuit
• CHAPTER 8 - The Battle of Midway
• CHAPTER 9 - The Lodestar
• CHAPTER 10 - “You Never Had It So Good”
• CHAPTER 11 - They Threw the Book at Us
• CHAPTER 12 - “He Who Fights and Runs Away”
• CHAPTER 13 -Operation GALVANIC
• CHAPTER 14 -“Spits of Sand in the Sun”
• CHAPTER 15 - The Marshalls Are Ours
• CHAPTER 16 - “I’ll Never Get Out of Here Alive”
• CHAPTER 17 - The Seven-League Seventh
• CHAPTER 18 - The Marianas
• CHAPTER 19 - “The Little Guys”
• CHAPTER 20 - Forgotten Corner
• CHAPTER 21 - “What Wonderful People”
• CHAPTER 22 - “I’m Sorry We Wrecked Your Plane, Sergeant”
• CHAPTER 23 - Assault on Iwo
• CHAPTER 24 - Banzai at Iwo
• CHAPTER 25 - The Mustangs Get Those Bastards
• CHAPTER 26 - The Last Damned Island
• CHAPTER 27 - Target-Japan!
• CHAPTER 28 - The Sun Also Sets
• About the Authors
• Maps and Illustrations