Scratch One Flattop

The First Carrier Air Campaign and the Battle of the Coral Sea (Twentieth-Century Battles)

De: Robert C Stern

Narrado por: Bill Nevitt

By the beginning of May 1942, five months after the Pearl Harbor attack, the US Navy was ready to challenge the Japanese moves in the South Pacific. When the Japanese sent troops to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, the Americans sent the carriers Lexington and Yorktown to counter the move, setting the stage for the Battle of the Coral Sea.

In this book, historian Robert C. Stern analyzes the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first major fleet engagement where the warships were never in sight of each other. Unlike the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Coral Sea has received remarkably little study. Stern covers not only the action of the ships and their air groups but also describes the impact of this pivotal engagement. His analysis looks at the short-term impact as well as the long-term implications, including the installation of inert gas fuel-system purging on all American aircraft carriers and the push to integrate sensor systems with fighter direction to better protect against enemy aircraft.

The essential text on the first carrier air campaign, Scratch One Flattop is a landmark study on an overlooked battle in the first months of the United States’ engagement in World War II.

The book is published by Indiana University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

©2019 Robert C. Stern (P)2021 Redwood Audiobooks

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Highly recommended." (Lisle A. Rose, author of The Northern Mariner)

Excellent book, weak narrator

If only the narrator had spent several hours learning to pronounce Japanese! It is not difficult, and hearing him butcher the names of ships, captains, pilots was very distracting from this otherwise excellent account of the battle.

Excellent

An excellent, detailed (for both US & Japan), study of this important battle. I especially enjoyed the description of Japanese offensive actions in the Indian Ocean. I have read several books that discuss the events around the battle of the coral sea, but this book is by far the most extensive and best.

A Very Detailed Accounting of the Battle

Over all, this was a good, detailed review of what each side was doing during the Battle of the Coral Sea at the beginning of the WWII in the Pacific. The narration is lecture style and adequate; nothing special. The primary drawback with this approach is that it is difficult to keep track of everything going on ... I think it would have helped to have a more tradition lecture, or presentation, approach where there is a summary, then detail, then review of each engagement.

I was given this free advance review/listener copy (ARC) audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

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