The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh (78 page)

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Maps by Carl Mehler and Gregory Ugiansky, National Geographic.

Map Sources

General sources

Ballard, Robert D.
Graveyards of the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Bikini Atoll
. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2001.

Theater of War in the Pacific Ocean
. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 1942.

Doolittle Raid

USS Enterprise CV-6 the Most Decorated Ship of the Second World War
. Action Report (Serial 008)-18 April, 1942. Available online at
www.cv6.org/ship/logs/action19420418-88.htm
.

USS Enterprise, Track from 1200 April 13—-0800 April 21, 1942
.

General Doolittle’s Report on Japanese Raid April 18, 1942
. Available online at
www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/rep/Doolittle/Report.html
.

Table of Contents

Cover

Other Books by This Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Image Gallery

Map of Pacific Theater in World War II

ONE: These Three Men

TWO: The King of Dirt

THREE: The Man with the Outside Loop

FOUR: Can Those Be Stars?

FIVE: Air Combat Is Not Sport, It Is Scientific Murder

SIX: New York to Paris

SEVEN: Man’s Greatest Enemy in the Air

EIGHT: I Was Saved for Some Good Purpose

NINE: An Inspiration in a Grubby World

TEN: His Halo Turned into a Noose

ELEVEN: The Raid

TWELVE: We Were Slowly Rotting Away

THIRTEEN: The Lone Eagle Goes to War

FOURTEEN: Masters of the Sky

Notes

Notes on Sources and Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Illustrations Credits

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