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NAL CALIBER Hardcover July 2012<br />
inTrePiD aviaTorS<br />
The True Story of U.S.S. Intrepid’s Torpedo<br />
Squadron 18 and Its Epic Clash with the<br />
Superbattleship Musashi<br />
Gregory G. Fletcher<br />
978-0-451-23696-8 • $26.95/$28.50 Can.<br />
Hardcover<br />
416 pp./6” x 9”/Carton: 24/Military Nonfiction<br />
Rights: W00<br />
First Serial, Audio, UK/ANZ, Translation: NAL Signet<br />
Other: Hornfischer Literary Management<br />
P.O. Box 50544<br />
Austin, TX 78763<br />
Publishing History: Original<br />
EAN: 9780451236968 52695<br />
On sale July 3, 2012<br />
suggested order<br />
Photo ©<br />
The incredible true story of the young American<br />
pilots who sank Japan’s greatest battleship.<br />
Intrepid Aviators is the thrilling true story of the aircraft carrier USS<br />
Intrepid’s brave bomber pilots, their daring duel with the Japanese superbattleship<br />
Musashi, and Will Fletcher’s struggle to survive as a guerrilla<br />
soldier in the jungles of the Philippines after getting shot out of the sky.<br />
The sinking of Musashi inflicted a crucial blow in the Battle of Leyte Gulf,<br />
and would mark the first time that aviators had sunk a Japanese battleship<br />
in what would become the war’s greatest—and last—epic naval battle.<br />
MARKETING<br />
• Radio inter<strong>view</strong>s<br />
• Print features and re<strong>view</strong>s<br />
• Online re<strong>view</strong>s and author inter<strong>view</strong>s<br />
• Targeted advertising to WWII history buffs<br />
SALES POINTS<br />
• A thrilling, true life World War II narrative set in the greatest naval clash in<br />
history, the Battle of Leyte Gulf<br />
• The aircraft carrier USS Intrepid, now the center of the Intrepid Sea, Air<br />
& Space Museum, has become a hallmark of New York City’s waterfront,<br />
welcoming nearly a million visitors each year<br />
• The author is the son of Intrepid pilot Will Fletcher, and chronicles his father’s<br />
actions fighting alongside Filipino guerillas in their resistance to<br />
Japanese occupation<br />
• For readers of James D. Hornfischer, Robert Gandt, Barrett Tillman, and<br />
Jonathan Parshall<br />
Gregory G. Fletcher served as a naval aviator from 1969 to 1974, and is now a<br />
practicing attorney. He is the son of USS Intrepid pilot Will Fletcher, who was<br />
awarded a Navy Cross of heroism for his actions in World War II.<br />
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