Tidal Wave

Tidal Wave

From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay

General Military
  • Author: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
  • Short code: GNM
  • Publication Date: 31 May 2018
  • Number of Pages: 320
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The United States Navy won such overwhelming victories in 1944 that, had the navy faced a different enemy, the war would have been over at the conclusion of the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

However, in the moment of victory on 25 October 1944, the US Navy found itself confronting an enemy that had been inconceivable until it appeared. The kamikaze, 'divine wind' in Japanese, was something Americans were totally unprepared for; a violation of every belief held in the West. The attacks were terrifying: regardless of the damage inflicted on an attacking airplane, there was no certainty of safety aboard the ship until that airplane was completely destroyed.

Based on first-person accounts, Tidal Wave is the story of the naval campaigns in the Pacific from the victory at Leyte Gulf to the end of the war, in which the US Navy would fight harder for survival than ever before.

Biographical Note

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver is the author of the well-received and best-selling Fabled Fifteen: The Pacific War Saga of Carrier Air Group 15, a history of the US Navy's top-scoring carrier air group in World War II, published by Casemate. He is additionally the author of F4F and F6F Aces of VF-2 published by Osprey, and also the author of Pacific Thunder, a history of the first year of the fast carrier offensive in the Pacific War, was published by Osprey in 2017. He lives in Encino, California, USA.

Contents

CHAPTER ONE: The Final Battle
CHAPTER TWO: October 25, 1944
CHAPTER THREE: The Big Blue Blanket
CHAPTER FOUR: Halsey's Typhoons
CHAPTER FIVE: The Forgotten Fleet
CHAPTER SIX: Tokyo
CHAPTER SEVEN: Iwo Jima
CHAPTER EIGHT: Prelude to Okinawa
CHAPTER NINE: The Fleet that Came to Stay
CHAPTER TEN: The Murderous Month of May
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Admiral Nimitz Writes a Letter
CHAPTER TWELVE: Finale
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Gyokusen
Bibliography
Index


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