5,000 Miles Towards Tokyo Contents A Foreword. vii 1 Three Little Indians 3 2 Training Is What Counts 14 3 A Pattern for Invasion 25 4 Appointment in Tarawa 35 5 How to Re-form an Air Group 45 6 Life on a Carrier 55 7 Explosion in the Marshalls 68 8 A Surprise for Eniwetok 19 9 General MacArthur's Navy 87 10 A Quiet Time at Hollandia 97 11 Trouble at Saipan 106 12 From Guam to Morotai 117 13 "I Have Returned" 128 14 What the Japs Went After 138 15 What They Found 148 Roster of Pilots and Air Crewmen 161 Index 167 Illustrations Gunner's turret facing page 16 The planes looked like birds 17 At Espiritu Santo 32 Before dawn the Hellcats were gone 33 Briefing pilots in the ready room 48 General Quarters 49 A TBF is pushed 64 The signal officer 65 A faulty landing 80 The Oak Club at Noumea 81 Guam was quiet 96 Their planes hit Palau 91 Death comes to a tanker 112 The Japs strike 113 A damaged F6F 144 The explosion on the Suwannee 145 Digitized by Google., Map on lining-papers, Electronic reproduction, Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002, digitized, Description based on print version record