Books: The Other Side of Midway

MIDWAY, THE BATTLE THAT DOOMED JAPAN (266 pp.)—Mitsuo Fuchida & Masatake Okumiya—U.S. Naval Institute ($4.50).

In the months after Pearl Harbor, the restless aggressors who bossed the Imperial Japanese Navy cast loftily about for new coasts to conquer. Having smashed many of the biggest ships of the U.S. and British fleets and landed their forces at will around the southern seas, they toyed between plans to go for India, Australia or Hawaii. It was Doolittle's Tokyo raid, launched in April 1942 from the U.S. carrier Hornet, that clinched the sea lords' new course...

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