LEADER 00000nam 2200397 i 4500 001 sky288835071 003 SKY 005 20170901114106.0 008 170714s2017 dcuab b 001 0deng 010 2017033787 020 9781621575061 (hardcover) 020 1621575063 (hardcover) 040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dSKYRV|dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 n-us---|aa-ja--- 092 940.544973|bBRO 100 1 Brown, Don,|d1960-|eauthor. 245 14 The last fighter pilot :|bthe true story of the final combat mission of World War II /|cDon Brown with Captain Jerry Yellin ; forewords by Captain Jerry Yellin and Melanie Sloan. 264 1 Washington, DC :|bRegnery Publishing,|c2017. 300 222 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c19 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 Author Don Brown (Treason) sat down with Yelllin, ninety- three years old, to tell the 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 the first-person account of war from one of America's last living World War II veterans. 600 10 Yellin, Jerry. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945|xAerial operations, American. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945|xCampaigns|zJapan|zTokyo. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945|xCampaigns|zPacific Area. 650 0 Fighter pilots|zUnited States|vBiography. 655 7 Nonfiction.|2local 700 1 Sloan, Melanie,|eauthor of foreword. 700 1 Yellin, Jerry,|eauthor. 710 1 United States.|bArmy Air Forces.|bFighter Squadron, 78th.
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