Moore, Stephen L., <br/><br/>
Rain of steel :  Mitscher's Task Force 58, Ugaki's Thunder Gods, and the Kamikaze war off Okinawa / 
 Mitscher's Task Force 58, Ugaki's Thunder Gods, and the Kamikaze war off Okinawa 
Stephen L. Moore. 
 - Annapolis, Maryland :  Naval Institute Press,  (c)2020. 
 - 1 online resource :  illustrations, maps 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> "Rain of Steel follows Navy and Marine carrier aviators in the desperate air battles to control the kamikazes directed by Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki. Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher's Task Force 58 carriers had conducted air strikes on mainland Japan and supported the Iwo Jima landings, but his aviators were sorely tested once the Okinawa campaign commenced on April 1, 1945. Ugaki would unleash ten different Kikusui aerial suicide operations, one including a naval force built around the world's most powerful battleship, the 71,000-ton Yamato. These battles are related largely through the words and experiences of some of the last living U.S. fighter aces of World War II"-- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781682475317 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2020012671 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Mitscher, Marc Andrew, 1887-1947. <br/>Ugaki, Matome, 1890-1945. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States. Navy.  Task Force 58 --History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Japan--Okinawa Island.<br/>Fighter pilots--United States--Interviews.<br/>Kamikaze airplanes.<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, Japanese.<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, Japanese.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>D767  / .R356 2020