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Title: Graveyards of the Pacific : From Pearl Harbor to Bikini Island by Robert D. Ballard, Michael Hamilton Morgan ISBN: 0-7922-6366-9 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A Look for T-33 bodies in Hilo Harbor
Comment: In 1960, A T-33 from Hickam crashed into Hilo Harbor while making a practice low approach one night to Hilo VOR. A surface search was non-productive. Beyond that, no effort was made to recover the bodies of the two pilots. Subsequently (this year, in fact) I attempted to have the Air Force look for the airplane and its two pilots. However, I was told by General Hess, acting for the Secretary of the Air Force, that because the T-33 is no longer in the AF inventory and that underwater searches are difficult, nothing could be done. I must say that the General most likely reached his conclusion without looking at the radio logs from Hilo Approach Control which narrows down the point of impact, without looking at the water depth in the most likely area where the T-bird crashed and without considering the technical advances made in the past 42 years in the subject of underwater searches. . So, the Air Force looks after its own? Well, maybe not all of its own. ... The USN? The Coast Guard? The University of Hawaii in Hilo, private agencies? Thanks for reading this and for any help you can provide. Jackson S. Wallace, Colonel, USAF Retired.
Rating: 1
Summary: A solid ripoff
Comment: This book purports to take the reader "on a tour" of Pacific warship shipwrecks. What a complete crock.
There are probably not a dozen wrecks covered here; all the photos save one are very small and mostly boring (unless you're really keen to see portholes underwater). Two photos come from the Japanese merchant wrecks at Truk, some of the most-photographed wrecks in the world (and offered in exceptionally better quality in other publications). The only large wreck illustration is a lovely Tom Freeman painting of the YORKTOWN wreck. Nice, but by no means worth the space on your bookshelf.
If you're someone who knows nothing about the Pacific war, then this is a reasonably good primer of some of the major actions. If you already know what the Battle of Midway was and have some idea that the Americans and Japanese each had aircraft carriers, this book will tell you nothing about the war you don't already know, and the photos, while nice, are available in dozens of other books. If you're looking for some interesting views of the shipwrecks Ballard has made his reputation on finding, you will find nothing of interest here.
Save your money, and pass this one up.
Rating: 4
Summary: Could have been better
Comment: Very interesting account of World War II Pacific wreck sites. However, I was hoping for a detailed photographic examination of the wrecks.
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Title: Return to Midway: The Quest to Find the Yorktown and the Other Lost Ships from the Pivotal Battle of the Pacific War by Robert D. Ballard, Rick Archbold, Ken Marschall ISBN: 0792275004 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Lost Subs by Spencer Dunmore, Jonathan Blair, Brian Skerry ISBN: 0306811405 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Ghost Fleet: The Sunken Ships of Bikini Atoll by James P. Delgado ISBN: 0824818687 Publisher: University of Hawaii Press Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $19.83 |
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Title: Collision With History: The Search for John F. Kennedy's PT 109 by Robert D. Ballard ISBN: 0792268768 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: 26 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: World War II Wrecks of the Truk Lagoon by Dan E. Balley, Dan Bailey ISBN: 0911615067 Publisher: North Valley Diver Pubns Pub. Date: 12 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $70.00 |
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