商品簡介
One of the greatest maritime salvage operations in US history took place for three years after the devastating attack by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Raising the Fleet follows the operation on each ship sunk or damaged from refloating to moderate to intensive repairs to putting the ships back into the fleet, with hundreds of period photographs and extensive captions.
作者簡介
ERNEST ARROYO, a retired production manager for a national printing firm, has been a student of US Naval history for more than 50 years. In 2001 he wrote the acclaimed book Pearl Harbor published by Pacific Historic Parks and is coauthor of Attack on Pearl Harbor, formally East Wind Rain, a highly popular pictorial account of the Pearl Harbor attack. He is also coauthor of My Pearl Harbor Scrapbook – 1941. Ernie lives and writes at his home in Stratford, Connecticut.STAN COHEN is a native of Charleston, West Virginia, and a graduate geologist. After many years as a geologist, in the ski business, and as director of a historical museum, he established Pictorial Histories Publishing Company in Missoula, Montana, in 1976, and has authored or coauthored 71 books and published over 350. He is the director of the Museum of Mountain Flying in Missoula and is involved with several other historical associations.