The last fighter pilot : 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.
TITLE:
The last fighter pilot : 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.
Publication Date:
2017
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : Regnery History,
Physical Description:
xxxiii, 222 p. : ill., maps.
Additional Contributors:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index.
Summary:
Captain (Retired) Jerry Yellin is an Army Air Corps veteran who served in WWII between 1941 and 1945. Yellin enlisted two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on his 18th Birthday. After graduating from Luke Air Field as a fighter pilot in August of 1943, he spent the remainder of the war flying P-40, P- 47 and P-51 combat missions in the Pacific with the 78th Fighter Squadron. He participated in the first land based fighter mission over Japan on April 7, 1945, and also has the unique distinction of having flown the final combat mission of World War II on August 14, 1945 – the day the war ended. On that mission, his wing-man (Phillip Schlamberg) was the last man killed in a combat mission in WWII. After the war ended, Jerry struggled with severe undiagnosed PTSD. He always wondered why he survived, while so many of his comrades died during the war.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781621575061
