You might like “The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945” by James D. Hornfischer.
It is a follow up to his “Neptunes Inferno” about the Guadalcanal Campaign that proceeded it. It takes in a much broader picture and ends with air campaign to deliver the bombs.
Those two books if we also add something for Midway all together tell us all the WWII taught us about Carrier warfare.
Excellent author. Neptune’s Inferno is one of my favorite military books.
The FReeper non sequiter recommended to the forum the book "Shattered Sword, the untold story of the battle of Midway." by Jonathan Parschall. It describes the status of tha Japanese Navy in detail. It gives a literally minute by minute account of operations on the various japanese and American carriers that refute most accounts that are based on the work of LtCdr Fuchida.
I have read and then reread the book several times.
