Nor was Browning's sorry performance at Midway. it's not as though the Spruance/Browning bad relationship was a secret.
It's hard to fathom why Hoyt made such a blunder. Hoyt simply reports the letter's contents, which completely misleads the reader. Spruance did send a complimentary letter to Nimitz praising Browning's performance, but that was a complete contradiction of his true belief. They barely acknowledged each other's existence afterwards. That and the intervention of Spruance in a Browning/aviator dispute, allowing the aviators to carry 500 pound bombs so that they might get back to the carriers soured there relationship. One huge error is Hoyt's failure toĪccurately describe Browning's launching of Enterprise's initial air attack, a horrible fiasco that led directly to Spruance's order to send the bombing aircraft without waiting for their escorts. The book has several glaring, inexplicable errors, which makes me wonder how much of what was new to me I can believe. Nimitz's command, to be specific, a subject I have some knowledge of via a fair number of Pacific war histories. Hoyt is hardly a newbie to WWII history, but considering the large number of works he has produced, one wonders how deeply he could have researched his subjects. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.
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