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Ewing, Steve and John B. Lundstrom Fateful Rendezvous. the Life of Butch O'Hare.
Annapolis Naval Institute Press 1997 1557502471 / 9781557502476 First Edition Hardcover Good in Good dust jacket
Xvi, [2], 358, [2] pages, plates, maps, cloth, DJ, very good. Stated first printing. From the DJ: "This first full biography, written with the O'Hare family's cooperation and utilizing recently released Japanese war records, chronicles the short but eventful life of the American hero and sheds new light on his mysterious death." From Wikipedia: "For 54 years there was no definitive answer as to whether he had been brought down by friendly fire or the Japanese bomber's nose gunner. In 1997 the publication of the primary source for this article, Fateful Rendezvous: The Life of Butch O'Hare, by Steve Ewing and John B. Lundstrom shed new light. Ewing and Lundstrom very clearly state, more than once, that Japanese guns, and not Kernan's, killed Butch O'Hare. In Chapter 16, "What Happened to Butch," the authors write, "Butch fell to his old familiar adversary, a Betty. Most likely he died from, or was immediately disabled by, a lucky shot from the forward observer crouched in the rikko's [Betty's] forward glassed-in nose...the nose gunner's 7.7mm slugs very likely penetrated Butch's cockpit from above on the port side and ahead of the F6F's armor plate." In the Index, Ewing and Lundstrom flatly state that Kernan is "wrongly accused of shooting down Butch." Why the confusion for so many years? Ewing and Lundstrom point out that the "most influential and oft-cited" account of O'Hare's last mission came in a 1962 history of the Enterprise by CDR Edward P. Stafford, which relied on action reports and recollections of former Enterprise crew, but did not contain interviews with any of the living participants. By contrast, Ewing and Lundstrom came to their conclusions on what happened to Butch after interviewing the still living survivors of O’Hare’s last mission: F6F pilot Skon, TBF radar officer Rand, and TBF gunner Kernan. Ewing and Lundstrom write, "Through Stafford and other accounts based largely on the action reports, Butch has wrongly become known as one of America's most famous "friendly fire" casualties."
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Lundstrom, John B. The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign. Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942.
Annapolis Naval Institute Press 1994 1557505268 / 9781557505262 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Good dust jacket
Xxii, 625, [4] pages, illustrations, maps, cloth, DJ, very good. 1st printing. From the estate of noted aviation collector Colin H. Kidd and with his embossed sticker. From the dust jacket: "This long-awaited sequel to the critically acclaimed First Team completes a fascinating chronicle of the carrier-based air battles that turned thet tide of the war in the Pacific. Justly renowned for their heroic feats, these fighter pilots ammased a remarkable combat record in the face of desperate odds. As in his earlier work, which has been hailed as 'one of the finest examples of aviation research, ' Lundstrom draws from a decade of research to present a thoroughly detailed and scrupulously accurate account of naval air combat in the arduous Guadalcanal campaign. " FR8-9
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