ILLUSTRATIONS
FFG Admiral Golovko, part of Karpov’s three ship flotilla marooned in 1945.
The ill-fated US carrier Wasp
NKVD Commissar Molla, pursued by Orlov in 1942, Molla points a gun at Orlov’s head while interrogating him.
The men, and the boys who became men of war as they fought in the Pacific.
ASM “Bat” guided air launched cruise missile, 1945 and the unique guidance system the US experimented with as mentioned in the novel—pigeons!
Admiral Clifton “Ziggy” Sprague
Admiral Bull Halsey
Some of the pilots who didn’t make it home…