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HTML: 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, ninety-three-year-old veteran whose story is brought to life by bestselling 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. Bestselling 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. .Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The Last Fighter Pilot tells such a story--of Jerry Yellin, who led his squadron during the last WWII fighter mission over Japan. It is a good, short read and captures Yellin's background, experience and difficulties of the war well. The author's description of Yellin's first night on Iwo Jima was particularly good.
The book suffers from two flaws. The first is the title; a misleading message about the subject of the book. There have been thousands of fighter pilots since Yellin and many have faced combat more intense and difficult than he did. He wasn't the last fighter pilot. He was one of the flight leads on the last fighter mission of WWII.
The second is the author's, shall we say, forced, stilted and sometimes over-adoring prose. The story tells itself and an informed reader doesn't need the author's help in drawing conclusions. One example:
"Fearless in facing death was a must. Jerry, for his part, had both the talent and the motivation. He'd become a fighter pilot to kill Japanese solders, to exact vengeance on them for attacking his country and killing his countrymen, and to defend freedom. And that's exactly what he was going to do."
A story well-told doesn't need such commentary from the author. The story is the commentary.
In the end, though, it is a good, personal look at aerial combat, the triumphs and losses that every warrior experiences and worth the time if a reader can see past the faults. ( )