Full Description
As part of Gen. Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers, American bomber pilots flew dangerous low-altitude missions against Japanese targets in and near China during World War II. Using B-24 Liberators equipped with top-secret radar for nighttime flying, these men sent a staggering amount of Japanese shipping--over a million tons--to the bottom of the South China Sea in little more than a year. This is the true story of aerial combat in one of the war's most exotic theaters of operation as seen through the eyes of one of its most decorated pilots, Capt. Elmer "Hainan Harry" Haynes.
Contents
Flight to Chabua, India; Introduction to War in China; Combat at Last; The Air War Heats Up; The Quick and the Dead; Suichwan: Outpost in Hell; The Legend of "Hainan Harry"; R&R: Rest and Recreation in China; Ordeal in the Jungle: Harry Marshall's Story; Panic in the Skies; Formation of the 308th Radar Control Detachment No.1; The South China Sea: Cauldron of Death; Japan's Last Hurrah in China; Homeward Bound and the Death of Harry Marshall; Epilogue; Index.
