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Never call me a hero : a legendary American dive-bomber pilot remembers the Battle of Midway

Title
  1. Never call me a hero : a legendary American dive-bomber pilot remembers the Battle of Midway / N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss, with Timothy and Laura Orr.
Published by
  1. [New York, NY] : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
  2. ©2017
Author
  1. Kleiss, N. Jack, 1916-2016

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Additional authors
  1. Orr, Timothy J.
  2. Orr, Laura Lawfer
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  1. Midwest Best Sellers
Description
  1. xvii, 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimile; 24 cm
Summary
  1. 75 years ago, one daring American pilot may have changed the course of history when he struck and sank two Japanese carriers at the Battle of Midway. Now, legendary dive-bomber "Dusty" Kleiss shares his unforgettable eyewitness account of America's greatest naval victory.
Subject
  1. Kleiss, N. Jack, 1916-2016
  2. Kleiss, N. Jack, 1916-2016
  3. United States. Navy. Scouting Squadron Six > Biography
  4. Enterprise (Aircraft carrier : CV-6)
  5. United States. Navy. Scouting Squadron Six
  6. 1939-1945
  7. Midway, Battle of, 1942 > Personal narratives, American
  8. Dive bomber pilots > United States > Biography
  9. World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American
  10. World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations, American
  11. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Military
  12. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs
  13. HISTORY > Military > World War II
  14. Dive bomber pilots
  15. Military operations, Aerial > American
  16. Military operations, Naval > American
  17. Midway Islands
  18. United States
Genre/Form
  1. Autobiographies.
  2. Personal Narrative
  3. Autobiography
  4. autobiographies (literary works)
  5. Autobiographies
  6. Biographies
  7. Personal narratives
  8. Personal narratives – American
  9. Personal narratives.
  10. Récits personnels.
Contents
  1. Foreword / by Jill Kleiss -- Introduction / by Norman Jack Kleiss -- Kansas childhood, 1916-1932 -- The lure of flight, 1932-1934 -- Midshipman, 1934-1938 -- Finding love, 1938-1939 -- The Navy's surface fleet, 1939-1940 -- Flight training, 1940-1941 -- Scouting Squadron Six, part 1, May-June 1941 -- Scouting Squadron Six, part 2, June-November 1941 -- The Pacific War begins, November 1941-January 1942 -- The battle of the Marshall Islands, February 1942 -- Wake and Marcus Islands, February-March 1942 -- Return to the central Pacific, March-June 1942 -- The Battle of Midway, part 1, the morning attack, June 4, 1942 -- The Battle of Midway, part 2, the afternoon attack, June 4, 1942 -- The Battle of Midway, part 3, June 5 and 6, 1942 -- Return to the States, June-October 1942 -- Flight instructor, 1942-1945 -- My life after the Second World War, 1946-1976 -- Remembering Midway, 1976-2016 -- Afterword / by Timothy J. Orr -- Appendix: Roster, Scouting Squadron Six, May 1941 to June 1942 -- Glossary of military acronyms.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Includes index.