| Portion of title |
Mitscher's Task Force 58, Ugaki's Thunder Gods, and the Kamikaze war off Okinawa |
| Abstract |
"Rain of Steel follows Navy and Marine carrier aviators in the desperate air battles to control the kamikazes directed by Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki. Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher's Task Force 58 carriers had conducted air strikes on mainland Japan and supported the Iwo Jima landings, but his aviators were sorely tested once the Okinawa campaign commenced on April 1, 1945. Ugaki would unleash ten different Kikusui aerial suicide operations, one including a naval force built around the world's most powerful battleship, the 71,000-ton Yamato. These battles are related largely through the words and experiences of some of the last living U.S. fighter aces of World War II"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Moore, Stephen L., 1967- Rain of steel Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2020] 9781682475317 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| LCCN | 2020012670 |
| ISBN | 9781682475263 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 1682475263 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | electronic book |
