Description The story of the man who won the Battle of Midway and avenged Pearl Harbor for the United States.
He lives in Acton, Massachusetts..
Naval History and No Substitute for Victory: Successful American Military Strategies from the Revolutionary War to the Present Day (Carrel Books, 2014).
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About the Author David Rigby is a historian and the author of Allied Master Strategists: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II (Naval Institute Press, 2012), which was awarded the 2012 John Lyman Book Prize in U.
Wade Mc Clusky was that man and this is his story.
This book is the story of exactly the right man being in exactly the right place at exactly the right time.
His ability to remain calm under enormous pressure played a huge role in the US Navy winning this decisive victory that turned the tide of war in the Pacific.
It was also Mc Clusky who took the calculated risk of continuing to search even though his bombers were low on fuel and may not have enough to make it back to the Enterprise.
It was he who made the counterintuitive choice to then search to the north instead of to the south.
It was Wade Mc Clusky who remained calm when the Japanese fleet was not where it was expected to be.
During the Battle of Midway in June 1942, US Navy dive bomber pilot Wade Mc Clusky proved himself to be one of the greatest pilots and combat leaders in American history, but his story has never been told-until now.
Description The story of the man who won the Battle of Midway and avenged Pearl Harbor for the United States
