This is the story of the fighter Mission that changed World War II.
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He viewed his chance at hero status as the start of a promising political career.- December 7, 1941, found Besby Holmes on a Pearl Harbor airstrip, firing his .45 handgun at Japanese fighters.
Lanphier was the son of a legendary fighter squadron commander and a dazzling storyteller. - "I\'m going to be President of the United States," Tom Lanphier once told a friend.
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A few weeks shy of his college graduation in 1940, the quiet Barber enlisted in the U. - Rex Barber grew up in the Oregon countryside and was the oldest surviving son in a tightly knit churchgoing family.
Though not a "natural" as an aviator, he eventually became the highest-scoring army ace on Guadalcanal and the leader of the Yamamoto attack.
Army pilots from Guadalcanal\'s battered "Cactus Air Force": - Mississippian John Mitchell, after flunking the West Point entrance exam, entered the army as a buck private.
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What was essentially a suicide Mission fell to a handful of colorful and expendable U.
After American code-breakers learned that the Admiral would be vulnerable for a few hours, a desperate attempt was launched to bring him down.
Davis meticulously tracks Yamamoto\'s eventual rendezvous with death.
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He was unable, however, to deal the fatal blow needed to knock America out of the war, and the shaken United States began its march to victory on the bloody island of Guadalcanal.
For the next sixteen months, this military genius, beloved by the Japanese people, lived up to his prediction that he would run wild in the Pacific Ocean.
Yamamoto was a cigar-smoking, poker-playing, English-speaking, Harvard-educated expert on America, and that intimate knowledge served him well as architect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
It is the true story of the man behind Pearl Harbor---Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto---and the courageous young American fliers who flew the million-to-one suicide Mission that shot him down.
This is the story of the fighter Mission that changed World War II
