In early 1942, while the Imperial Japanese Navy rampaged in the western Pacific and the East Indies, the US Navy was desperately attempting to recover from the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. A raid by US Navy aircraft carriers on the Japanese-held Marshall Islands was a small but important step in showing the world that America was still in the fight.
Ensign Jim Novak is a dive bomber pilot on board USS Enterprise, eager for a chance to take the fight to the enemy. This will be his first mission to strike a blow against the Japanese, but it could also be his last...
Our Turn to Shoot is a short story of approximately 6,300 words.
It has been several years since I last read The Lord of the Rings, and even longer since I last read The Silmarillion. Returning to Middle-Earth was a better treat than I had at first expected. The first time I had read The Silmarillion, in middle-school in the 1980s, I found it to be interesting, although tedious in places. Two of the longest tales (and therefore the most tedious) were the tales Of Beren and Luthien and Of Turin Turambar. I found that I just had to plow through them to "get on with the story" of the First Age.