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The Last Flight of Bomber 31; Harrowing Accounts of American and Japanese Pilots
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The Last Flight of Bomber 31; Harrowing Accounts of American and Japanese Pilots Who Fought in World War II's Arctic Air Campaign Soft cover - 2004

by Ralph Wetterhahn

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New York, NY: Carroll & Graf, 2004 Carroll & Graf, New York. 2004. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: VG+; slight wear to edge at head and tail; indentation on front wrap, light tip bump on front wrap. Pictorial Wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased. 356 pp. A breathtaking account of the nose to tail air war between American and Japanese flyers above the Bering Sea. Dubbed riders of the "Empire Express" American pilots stationed in the Aleutians flew nine-hour missions in sub-zero temperatures to bomb Japanese installations in the Kuril Islands. Based on crash investigations, the author re-creates the crew's daunting exploits, that of US Navy pilot Walt S. Whitman, and the missions of Japan's pilots and the fate of those captured and interned in Siberia. A moving portrait of servicemen in the forgotten frozen battleground of WWII. A clean and very presentable copy.
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During the first week in August 2000, I spent two days at the Elmendorf Air Force Base History Office in Anchorage, Alaska.

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Colonel Ralph Wetterhahn (Ret.) is a trained aircraft crash investigator and the author of The Last Battle: The Mayaguez Incident and the End of the Vietnam War, about three marines captured and killed by the Khmer Rouge during the final combat action of the Vietnam War and a novel about the search for lost airmen, Shadowmakers. His articles are widely read in Air & Space/Smithsonian, Popular Science, VFW, and Military Officer Magazine. During his military career he flew 180 combat missions for the U.S. Air Force and Navy. Wetterhahn, who was featured in the 2003 Nova documentary, "The Last Flight of Bomber 31," lives in Long Beach, California.

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