Battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, submarines, PT boats and landing craft are all featured in this look back at U.S. Navy prowess in World War II. Rare color photography from the war years, as well as a selection of black-and-white shots, illustrate a compelling text that features anecdotes and memories from officers and sailors who served with the U.S. Navy in all theaters of the war. In addition to profiling the service histories, specifications, armaments and fate of vessels like the battleship USS Missouri, the cruiser USS Indianapolis and the carrier USS Hornet, to name a few, this book also serves as a valuable chronicle of navy life during the war.
Author Nicholas A. Veronico comes from a family of pilots, both his mother and father held private tickets, and his brother is a commercial pilot who flies for a major airline.
Veronico got his start in aviation journalism as a freelance journalist in 1984, then joined Pacific Flyer Aviation Newspapers. He then went on to serve as editor of In Flight USA, contributed extensively to FlyPast magazine, and in 1994 joined Airliners: The World's Airline Magazine. On a freelance basis, he has contributed to Air Classics, EAA Warbirds, Warbirds Worldwide, Airliner World, Classic Wings, and many others. His career path lead to the high-tech industry where he worked for an embedded systems-on-a-chip magazine, Silicon Strategies. Subsequently, he served as editor of Gridpoints, the quarterly publication of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division, which covered NASA's scientific achievements in computational physics using high performance computers. He now works on the staff of NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).
In addition to working in the magazine field, Veronico has collaborated with a number of today's best aviation historians and authors and has written more than 25 books on a wide range of aviation and military topics, and local history subjects. He also served as the lead scriptwriter for Scrapping Aircraft Giants, a TV documentary by Daurg Productions and shown on The Discovery Channel. His homepage is www.pacaeropress.com.
Recently, the Military Writer's Society of America (www.militarywriters.com) recognized Veronico's history of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration team and his book on military aircraft storage (AMARG) with distinguished book awards.
