Everything We Had, Tom Burkhalter
Everything We Had, Tom Burkhalter
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Everything We Had
A Novel of the southwest Pacific Air War November-December 1941

Author: Tom Burkhalter

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 11 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/09/2021

Synopsis

November 1941: War is coming to the Pacific.

In Europe, the Nazis are triumphant. England is under siege by air and sea. France has fallen to the Nazi Wehrmacht, which in turn fell on Soviet Russia. The Red Army is in full retreat, with the Nazis at the gates of Moscow.

In the Pacific, Japan has been at war with China since 1937. Her war industries depend upon imports of scrap metal and oil from the Allied nations. When an embargo is placed on imports to Japan, they are left with a year's supply of oil to supply their armed forces.

Japan surrounds American possessions in the Philippines on three sides. The US Army is making a desperate, last-minute attempt to reinforce the Philippines garrison, but the clock is ticking for the Japanese, with their oil running out. The armed forces of Imperial Japan may attack the Philippines at any moment.

Two brothers, Jack and Charlie Davis, are pilots in the US Army Air Forces. They are part of the reinforcements sent to the Far Eastern Air Force, charged with air defense of the Philippines.

For Jack and Charlie, in a time when the US is on the brink of world war, a simple question must soon be answered: what will I do when the Japanese come?

About Tom Burkhalter

Tom Burkhalter was born in Georgia. His parents could never decide if the first word he ever spoke was "airplane" or "star." They did agree he pointed at a moving light in the sky! He lives in Hickory, North Carolina, where he volunteers at the Hickory Aviation Museum and pursues his writing career and his omnivorous tastes in reading.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Don on October 28, 2020

Tom Burkhalter’s book takes place in the few months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It involves the story of two airplane pilots, brothers Charlie and Jack. Charlie is a bomber while Jack is part of an Intercepter Squadron. Most of the action takes place in the Pacific, where there is an uneasy......more

Goodreads review by Bill on July 09, 2021

Very good A tad confusing with so many characters introduced in the first chapter. Got much better after that. Only correction is that airplanes fly in knots and distances are nautical miles. About 1 1/8 mph. For some unknown reason while distance is in nautical miles, altitude is in feet, now I thin......more

Goodreads review by Chaplain Stanley on November 11, 2021

Interesting and enjoyable It started to be a little too much history of the start of the army air force and flying information and very little action, but made up for it in the action described in the last quarter of the book.......more

Goodreads review by F.E. on April 20, 2023

Burkhalter did a terrific job of showing how unprepared the United States was for a modern war. In particular, the Air Force was puny and starved for resources. Jack Davis, the son of a fighter pilot in the Great War loves to fly and is drawn into the Army Air Force as the United States embarks on a......more

Goodreads review by Roy Hawksley on March 12, 2020

At war before they could prepare Well written, historically accurate. Excellent story of two American brothers sent to the Philippines in December 1941 as America attempts to build up the Pacific forces as realization slowly dawns that Japan is almost certain to go to war. One is a B-17 pilot, the o......more

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