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"On June 4, 1942, the U.S. aircraft carrier Yorktown fought one of the great naval battles of all time - a battle that historians say turned the momentum of the war in the Pacific away from Japan in favor of the United States.
The Yorktown, already battle damaged, endured waves of assaults and tons of explosives from attacking Japanese airplanes that day. Despite the heroic efforts of her crew, 84 of whom died, the assault proved to be too much for the patched-up ship. When the Yorktown could take no more and began to list, more than 2,000 men climbed down ropes or dove into an oily sea. Later, from the decks of rescue ships, they came to attention, saluted, and wept as the mighty ship disappeared into the water. Fifty-six years later, in 1998, undersea explorer Robert Ballard located the Yorktown resting upright on the ocean floor.
Young and idealistic, the men who carried the sea battle that turned the war with Japan brought with them an uncluttered sense of purpose, patriotism and love of country. They came from all over - from a dirt farm in central Florida, from a tiny mill town in South Carolina, from an Iowa orphanage, from the streets of Manhattan.
This is their story, told with the passion of that fiery day through the perspective of more than fifty years. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jeff Nesmith conducted scores of personal interviews with survivors and combed their diaries and official records to assemble this epic story. In the tradition of Stephen Ambrose's Citizen Soldiers and Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation, this is an inspiring account of young soldiers and old heroes."

Marietta, Georgia, Longstreet:1999, ISBN 1-56352-552-6

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New York, New York, Simon & Schuster:1987, ISBN 0-671-64452-1 (paperback)

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