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Lucky 666 : the impossible mission / Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.

Drury, Bob, (author.). Clavin, Tom, 1954- (author.).

Summary:

"From the authors of the New York Times bestselling The Heart of Everything That Is and Halsey's Typhoon comes the dramatic, untold story of a daredevil bomber pilot and his misfit crew who fly their lone B-17 into the teeth of the Japanese Empire in 1943, engage in the longest dogfight in history, and change the momentum of the War in the Pacific--but not without making the ultimate sacrifice,"--Baker & Taylor.

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  • ISBN: 9781476774855
  • ISBN: 1476774854
  • ISBN: 9781476774862
  • ISBN: 1476774862
  • Physical Description: viii, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Simon & Schuster edition
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Maps on end pages.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-341) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Wanderlust -- The wild blue yonder -- Jay & Joe -- "The sacred duty of the leading race" -- The fortress -- The winds of war -- The Japanese Citadel -- Into the fight -- Breaking the code -- The renegade pilot -- The Bulldog -- A microscopic metropolis -- Ken's men -- A place where trouble started -- "Clear as a bell" -- The missing General -- Pushing North -- A fine reunion -- "A motley collection of outcasts" -- Blood on the Bismarck Sea -- The flight of the geishas -- Old 666 -- The outlaws -- No position is safe -- New additions -- "Hell, no!" -- Buka -- "Give 'em hell!" -- The desperate dive -- Get it home -- "He's all right" -- Dobodura.

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Subject:
Zeamer, Jay, Jr., 1918-2007.
Sarnoski, Joseph, 1915-1943.
United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 22nd > Biography.
Bomber pilots > United States > Biography.
B-17 bomber.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Pacific Area.
World War, 1939-1945 > Regimental histories > United States.
Genre:
Biographies.

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