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• catalog abstract ""In the summer of 1942 Jim Vernon, a nineteen-year-old student in Butte, Montana, joined the U.S. Navy's aviation cadet training program. By the end of the war he was flying F6F Hellcats from the USS Ticonderoga against the Japanese mainland. This memoir provides a carrier pilot's view of the conflict in the Pacific during the final months of the war when atomic bombs were dropped and Japan capitulated." "A member of VBF-87, Vernon gives a highly personal eyewitness account of life in a bomber-fighter squadron and the roller-coaster emotions involved in combat sorties over hostile sea and land. He describes his feeling about meeting the challenges of war and offers stirring memories of his love of flying and the camaraderie of his flying mates - both in the air and on liberty. Added to this entertaining narrative are details of the mobilization and training of carrier pilots as well as a discussion of the high incidence of noncombat fatalities and the air group's response to the kamikaze threat, information that contributes important dimensions to the overall story of the air war." "Completely candid about his emotions regarding day and night landings and errors made in the cockpit, Vernon gives a vivid glimpse into the past at a time when teenagers matured rapidly as they faced the realities of war. His recollections will strike a cord of recognition with aviators everywhere and will inform and entertain those with an interest in World War II combat."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12742782.
• catalog created "c2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "c2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
• catalog description ""A member of VBF-87, Vernon gives a highly personal eyewitness account of life in a bomber-fighter squadron and the roller-coaster emotions involved in combat sorties over hostile sea and land. He describes his feeling about meeting the challenges of war and offers stirring memories of his love of flying and the camaraderie of his flying mates - both in the air and on liberty. Added to this entertaining narrative are details of the mobilization and training of carrier pilots as well as a discussion of the high incidence of noncombat fatalities and the air group's response to the kamikaze threat, information that contributes important dimensions to the overall story of the air war."".
• catalog description ""Completely candid about his emotions regarding day and night landings and errors made in the cockpit, Vernon gives a vivid glimpse into the past at a time when teenagers matured rapidly as they faced the realities of war. His recollections will strike a cord of recognition with aviators everywhere and will inform and entertain those with an interest in World War II combat."--Jacket.".
• catalog description ""In the summer of 1942 Jim Vernon, a nineteen-year-old student in Butte, Montana, joined the U.S. Navy's aviation cadet training program. By the end of the war he was flying F6F Hellcats from the USS Ticonderoga against the Japanese mainland. This memoir provides a carrier pilot's view of the conflict in the Pacific during the final months of the war when atomic bombs were dropped and Japan capitulated."".
• catalog description "Civilian Pilot Training -- Flying Endlessly in Piper Cubs -- Preflight School -- On the Brink of Washing Out -- Flying Those Turkey Vultee Vibrators -- The End of a Long Beginning -- Dive-Bombing at Cecil Field -- Carrier Qualification on Lake Michigan -- Joining Air Group 87 -- Routine Training Flights -- Shakedown Cruise aboard the USS Randolph -- Voyage to Hawaii -- Night Field Carrier Landing Practice -- Into Combat aboard the USS Ticonderoga -- North to Japan with Task Group 38.3 -- We Regret to Inform You -- Typhoon Season -- A Waste of Men in a War Already Won -- An Uncertain Future -- On Leave after the War -- Leaving the Peacetime Navy.".
• catalog extent "x, 208 p. :".
• catalog identifier "1557508658 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "c2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press,".
• catalog spatial "Pacific Ocean.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "940.54/4973/092 21".
• catalog subject "D811 .V363 2003".
• catalog subject "Fighter pilots United States Biography.".
• catalog subject "Hellcat (Fighter planes)".
• catalog subject "Vernon, James W., 1922-".
• catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Ocean.".
• catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, American.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Civilian Pilot Training -- Flying Endlessly in Piper Cubs -- Preflight School -- On the Brink of Washing Out -- Flying Those Turkey Vultee Vibrators -- The End of a Long Beginning -- Dive-Bombing at Cecil Field -- Carrier Qualification on Lake Michigan -- Joining Air Group 87 -- Routine Training Flights -- Shakedown Cruise aboard the USS Randolph -- Voyage to Hawaii -- Night Field Carrier Landing Practice -- Into Combat aboard the USS Ticonderoga -- North to Japan with Task Group 38.3 -- We Regret to Inform You -- Typhoon Season -- A Waste of Men in a War Already Won -- An Uncertain Future -- On Leave after the War -- Leaving the Peacetime Navy.".
• catalog title "The hostile sky : a hellcat flier in World War II / James W. Vernon.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "Personal narratives American. fast".
• catalog type "text".