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Book

The last fighter pilot : the true story of the final combat mission of World War II

Author

Don Brown

Call Number

  • 940.544 B87769 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Washington, DC : Regnery Publishing, 2017.

Physical Description

xxxiii, 222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm

Contents

  • Preface: springtime in America
  • The Seventy-Eighth Fighter Squadron
  • The first night in Hell
  • A graveyard for bombers and the need for Iwo Jima
  • Assessing the threat
  • Hell rains from the skies
  • The Chichi Jima problem: the last impediment for the fighters
  • Hitting Chichi Jima
  • In the mind of the enemy
  • Prelude to a massacre
  • Massacre of the night fighters
  • Jerry hopes for a chance
  • The rain; and news; breaks
  • On to Japan
  • The Second Empire mission and the death of a president
  • Baseball, softball, and the southern boy from Clemson
  • The raid on Osaka
  • Five hours over Chichi Jima
  • Heartbreak over Tokyo
  • The blazing winds of August
  • Jerry hears the news
  • The enemy stalls
  • Over Tokyo
  • Epilogue: the final salute.

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