Rendezvous at Midway: U.S.S. Yorktown and the Japanese Carrier Fleet.
First edition of Pat Frank and Joseph D. Harrington's Rendezvous at Midway; signed by 18 members of the U.S.S. Yorktown crew
Rendezvous at Midway: U.S.S. Yorktown and the Japanese Carrier Fleet.
FRANK, Pat and Joseph D. Harrington. Forewords by Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher and Yahachi Tanabe.
Item Number: 122660
New York: The John Day Company, 1967.
First edition of Frank and Harrington’s account of the attack on the Battle of Midway, one of the best true combat sea stories of World War II. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by 18 members of the U.S.S. Yorktown crew, many of whom are listed in the index, on the front free endpaper and pastedown including John Scott, Ben Preston, Clyde McClure, Joe Harrington, John Scott, and William Hartley. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Jacket from an original oil painting by the Etheredges.
A carefully researched account of the Yorktown, her crew and her pilots. "Rendezvous at Midway" reads like a film script as it builds up to the climax in June, 1942, when U. S. navel forces crippled a superior Japanese fleet and ended the very real threat of an invasion of the United States from the Pacific. Pat Frank, noted author, and Joseph D. Harrington worked together closely for months to compile a complete history of the U.S.S. Yorktown: her christening, immediate war action following the attack on Pearl Harbor, first blooding at Coral Sea, devastating victory at Midway, and avoidable sinking two days later. It ranks with the best of the true combat sea stories of World War II.
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