Fighting the night Iwo Jima, World War II, and a flyer's life
"In the fall of 1944, Joe Paul Hendrickson, the author's father, kissed his twenty-one-year-old wife and two baby children goodbye. The twenty-five-year-old first lieutenant, pilot of a famed P-61 Black Widow, was leaving for the war. He and his night fighter squadron were sent to Iwo Jima, where, f...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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