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