Black Shoe Carrier Admiral
Author: John B Lundstrom
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2013-02-15
Total Pages: 667
ISBN-13: 1612512208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe revisionist work about Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, who won his battles at sea but lost the war of public opinion. A surface warrior, Fletcher led the carrier forces in the Pacific that won against all odds at Coral Sea, Midway, and the Eastern Solomon’s. Despite these successes, during the post-war Fletcher had become one of the most controversial figures in U.S. naval history and was portrayed as a timid bungler who failed to relieve Wake Island and who deliberately abandoned the Marines at Guadalcanal.