The Last Fighter Pilot
eBook - ePub

The Last Fighter Pilot

The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Last Fighter Pilot

The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II

About this book

*A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!* The New York Post calls The Last Fighter Pilot a "must-read" book. From April to August of 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin and a small group of fellow fighter pilots flew dangerous bombing and strafe missions out of Iwo Jima over Japan. Even days after America dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9, the pilots continued to fly. Though Japan had suffered unimaginable devastation, the emperor still refused to surrender. Bestselling author Don Brown ( Treason ) sits down with Yelllin, now ninety-three years old, to tell the incredible true story of the final combat mission of World War II. Nine days after Hiroshima, on the morning of August 14th, Yellin and his wingman 1st Lieutenant Phillip Schlamberg took off from Iwo Jima to bomb Tokyo. By the time Yellin returned to Iwo Jima, the war was officially over—but his young friend Schlamberg would never get to hear the news. The Last Fighter Pilot is a harrowing first-person account of war from one of America's last living World War II veterans.

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Information

Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781621575061
eBook ISBN
9781621575559
Topic
History
Subtopic
World War II
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Cast of Characters
  6. Foreword by Captain Jerry Yellin
  7. Foreword by Melanie Sloan
  8. Historical Footnote: The Aftermath of World War II
  9. Preface: Springtime in America
  10. Chapter 1: The Seventy-Eighth Fighter Squadron
  11. Chapter 2: The First Night in Hell
  12. Chapter 3: A Graveyard for Bombers and the Need for Iwo Jima
  13. Chapter 4: Assessing the Threat
  14. Chapter 5: Hell Rains from the Skies
  15. Chapter 6: The Chichi Jima Problem: The Last Impediment for the Fighters
  16. Chapter 7: Hitting Chichi Jima
  17. Chapter 8: In the Mind of the Enemy
  18. Chapter 9: Prelude to a Massacre
  19. Chapter 10: Massacre of the Night Fighters
  20. Chapter 11: Jerry Hopes for a Chance
  21. Chapter 12: The Rain—and News—Breaks
  22. Chapter 13: On to Japan
  23. Chapter 14: The Second Empire Mission and the Death of a President
  24. Chapter 15: Baseball, Softball, and the Southern Boy from Clemson
  25. Chapter 16: The Raid on Osaka
  26. Chapter 17: Five Hours over Chichi Jima
  27. Chapter 18: Heartbreak over Tokyo
  28. Chapter 19: The Blazing Winds of August
  29. Chapter 20: Jerry Hears the News
  30. Chapter 21: The Enemy Stalls
  31. Chapter 22: Over Tokyo
  32. Epilogue: The Final Salute
  33. Acknowledgments
  34. Notes
  35. Bibliography
  36. Excerpt from ‘Jerry’s Last Mission’