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Supplying a naval history of the whole Pacific Theater in World War II through the lens of its most well-known ship, this is the epic and heroic report of the aeroplanes carrier USS Business and of the men who fought and perished on her from Pearl Harbor to the end of the turmoil. Award-winning creator Barrett Tillman has been called "the man who has naval aviation history," and Business is the task he was born to write: the first complete report of "The Big E", incorporating oral histories and the author's own interviews with the last surviving veterans who offered on her through the major battles of the Pacific battle. America's most embellished warship of World War II, Business was constantly employed against the Japanese Empire, earning the subject "the fightingest dispatch" in the navy. Her career was eventful, vital, and short. Commissioned in 1938, her bombers sank a submarine just 10 days and nights after the Pearl Harbor episode, proclaiming the first Japanese vessel lost in the battle. It was the auspicious start of the odyssey that Tillman catches brilliantly, from escorting sister carrier Hornet as it launched the Doolittle Raiders against Tokyo in 1942 to participating in leading functions in the pivotal battles of Midway and Guadalcanal to undergoing the shattering headache of kamikaze strikes in May of 1945. This is the definitive history of the dispatch whose aviators claimed 911 enemy aeroplanes and 71 boats, a saga of apparently ceaseless heroism. Barrett Tillaman is a widely recognized expert on air warfare in World War II and the author of more than 40 nonfiction and fiction catalogs on military topics. He has received six prizes for history and literature, like the Admiral Arthur Radford Honor. He lives in Mesa, Az.
