Fighting the Night
Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer's Life
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
"From the acclaimed and bestselling author of Hemingway's Boat, the profoundly moving story of his father's wartime service as a night fighter pilot, and the prices paid by him, and other soldiers, for their acts of selfless, patriotic sacrifice"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Amarillo Goodbye -- Long Ago in Kentucky -- The Road to South Field on Iwo Jima (1) -- The Road to South Field on Iwo Jima (2) -- Clear Pictures -- Where Leo E Sat -- Eighty-Three Years Later, Not Quite to the Day -- Of James Dickey and My Father -- The Short Unhappy Life of "The Merry Widow" -- The Last Living Airman of the 549th -- June-July 1945 -- The All-American Life and Mysterious Death of Larry Garland (and the Crew of Black Widow #42-39426) -- "Sing Me Back Home Before I Die."
Subjects:
Hendrickson, Joseph P. (Joseph Paul), 1918-2003.
Hendrickson, Paul, 1944- -- Family.
United States. Army Air Forces. Night Fighter Squadron, 549th -- Biography.
United States. Army Air Forces. -- Officers -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Regimental histories.
Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography.
Black Widow (Night fighter plane)
Iwo Jima (Volcano Islands, Japan) -- History, Military -- 20th century.
Hendrickson, Joseph P. (Joseph Paul), 1918-2003.
Hendrickson, Paul, 1944- -- Family.
United States. Army Air Forces. Night Fighter Squadron, 549th -- Biography.
United States. Army Air Forces. -- Officers -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Regimental histories.
Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography.
Black Widow (Night fighter plane)
Iwo Jima (Volcano Islands, Japan) -- History, Military -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780593321133
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Hendrickson, Joseph | Main (Downtown) | Biography | Coming Soon |
BIOGRAPHY Hendrickson, Joseph | Northeast Indoors | Biography | In |
"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.