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Dawn Of Thunder: Torpedo Squadron 8 At Midway

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casey jones

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I was watching C-Span Book TV last night and they had a book discussion of the new book "Dawn Of Thunder" Torpedo 8 At Midway". I am waiting so I can go to B & N and get this great book! The book illustrates each of the Torpedo 8 Pilots and gunners who flew at Midway June 1942. It appears to be a very detailed deventative work on Torpedo 8, the book details Lt Cdr Waldron's efforts to get the navy to quickly transition from the old Devesators to the new TBFs at that time coming into service with the fleet, but Waldron had left half of Torpedo 8 at Norfolk NAS and the remmaining pilots went with him aboard the Hornet with their Douglas Devestaors...which were very obselete at that time. Also none of the pilots had dropped a live torpedo either.

Cheers

Casey:wavey:
 
A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight
ISBN 9780316021395, $27.99 at your local Barnes & Noble. :)
Casey, thanks for the heads-up. Helps me do some suggestive selling at the store when customers show interest in NavAir stuff.
 
Yes, I saw that too!!! C-SPAN. I wish I'd been at that lecture. When I was living in Rochester, I JUST missed a talk by one of the Tuskegee Airmen. I read about it in the paper just as the actual lecture was winding down.

JAMES
 
Some years back(everything is a few years for me) at some of the airshows Geo W Gay would be there selling Monogram models of the
aircraft he flew on the day TS8 was lost. He past away a few years ago.
ckissling
 
OT again some years back I did a gunshow in Wisconsin, and there was
one the few living crew of the Bismarck. He also was selling models, only
of the Bismarck. He lives in the U.S. and by now he too may be gone to
rest. ckissling
 
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