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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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Main Author: Hendrickson, Paul, 1944- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Hendrickson, Joseph P. > (Joseph Paul), > 1918-2003.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Japan.
World War, 1939-1945 > Regimental histories > United States.
Fighter pilots > United States > Biography.
Black Widow (Night fighter plane)
Hendrickson, Paul, > 1944-
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Amarillo goodbye
  • Part one: Beginnings. Long ago in Kentucky
  • The road to South Field on Iwo Jima (1)
  • The road to South Field on Iwo Jima (2)
  • Part two: There. Clear pictures
  • Where Leo E sat
  • Eighty-three years later, not quite to the day
  • Of James Dickey and my father
  • The short unhappy life of "The Merry Widow"
  • The last living airman of the 549th
  • June-July 1945
  • The all-American life and mysterious death of Larry Garland (and the crew of Black Widow #42-39426)
  • Epilogue: "Sing me back home before I die".

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