![]() ![]() His work includes the novel Treason (2005) and the exposé Call Sign Extortion 17: The Shoot-Down of Team Seal Six (2015), a highly detailed account of the most deadly American loss-of-life in the Afghan War-the shoot-down of a U.S. ![]() Navy JAG officer and Special Assistant United States Attorney, is the author of eleven bestselling legal and military books. The Last Fighter Pilot is a harrowing first-person account of war from one of America's last living World War II veterans.Ībout the Author Don Brown, a former U.S. 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. 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. Bestselling author Don Brown ( Treason) sits down with Yelllin, now ninety-three years old, to tell the incredible true story of the final combat mission of World War II. Though Japan had suffered unimaginable devastation, the emperor still refused to surrender. Even days after America dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9, the pilots continued to fly. From April to August of 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin and a small group of fellow fighter pilots flew dangerous bombing and strafe missions out of Iwo Jima over Japan. Book Synopsis *A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!* The New York Post calls The Last Fighter Pilot a "must-read" book. ![]()
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