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.