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The Last Fighter Pilot

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

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The Last Fighter Pilot

By: Don Brown, Captain Jerry Yellin - foreword, Captain Jerry Yellin - contributor, Melanie Sloan - foreword
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
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On the morning of August 15, 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin flew the last combat mission of World War II out of Iwo Jima. Today, Captain Yellin is a sharp, engaging, 93-year-old veteran whose story is brought to life by best-selling author Don Brown (Treason).

From April to August of 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin and a small group of fellow fighter pilots flew dangerous bombing and strafing 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.

Best-selling author Don Brown sits down with Yellin to tell the incredible true story of the final combat mission of World War II. Nine days after Hiroshima, on the morning of August 15, Yellin and his wingman First Lieutenant Philip 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.

©2017 Don Brown (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Air Forces Armed Forces Asia Japan Military Military & War World War II Veteran War Imperial Japan US Air Force
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The basis of the book the last combat mission of the war is well told in a broader picture covering the lives of the men who flew it. from training through initial combats in the developing air war against Japan and the pressure they were under. It has lots of details from first hand accounts of some pivotal battles and some only significant to the participants that history has forgot.

A very insightful book on the air war in the later part of the Pacific campaign.

A very insightful book into the Air War against Japan in late Pacific campaign

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