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Title: Decent story ruined by author's biases.
Review: This is an adequate description of the famous battle; especially interesting is the story of the aftermath - all the pilots trying to get back to their ships. The author's obvious status as a Navy groupie, however, leads him to make silly and undocumented statements that detract mightily from his book. Two examples of throwaway lines will suffice - "Harry Truman was the most anti-navy president of the twentieth century", thus maligning a president who tried to end rivalries and bring some order to our defense establishment by making it sound as if he was "against" the navy. The second example refers to the Tailhook "withhunt", as if there were not legitimate reasons to discipline those yahoos. The index is totally inadequate (the words Truman and tailhook are not to be found). There must be better histories of the Marianas battle available.
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