01773cam a2200325 i 4500 299564981 TxAuBib 20170725120000.0 160321s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781621575061 1621575063 (OCoLC)945232346 eng rda TxAuBib rda The last fighter pilot [BOOK] : the true story of the final combat mission of World War II / Don Brown with Captain Jerry Yellin ; forewords by Captain Jerry Yellin and Melanie Sloan. Washington, DC : Regnery History, [2017] xxxiii, 222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "Brown ... sits down with [Jerry] Yellin, now ninety-three years old, to tell the ... story of the final combat mission of World War II. Nine days after Hiroshima, on the morning of August 14th, Yellin and his wingman 1st Lieutenant Phillip 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. [This book] is a ... first-person account of war from one of America's last living World War II veterans". 20170725. Fighter pilots United States Biography. World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, American. World War, 1939-1945 Japan. Biographies. Personal narratives. Brown, Don, (author ; illustrator), 1949- Yellin, Jerry.