Lucky 666 : the impossible mission /
Drury, Bob,
Lucky 666 : the impossible mission / Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - viii, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Maps on end pages.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-341) and index.
Wanderlust -- The wild blue yonder -- Jay & Joe -- "The sacred duty of the leading race" -- The fortress -- The winds of war -- The Japanese Citadel -- Into the fight -- Breaking the code -- The renegade pilot -- The Bulldog -- A microscopic metropolis -- Ken's men -- A place where trouble started -- "Clear as a bell" -- The missing General -- Pushing North -- A fine reunion -- "A motley collection of outcasts" -- Blood on the Bismarck Sea -- The flight of the geishas -- Old 666 -- The outlaws -- No position is safe -- New additions -- "Hell, no!" -- Buka -- "Give 'em hell!" -- The desperate dive -- Get it home -- "He's all right" -- Dobodura.
The "untold story of friendship, heroism and survival in World War II"--Book jacket.
9781476774855 1476774854 9781476774862 1476774862
40026606389
2016017924
Zeamer, Jay, Jr., 1918-2007.
Sarnoski, Joe, 1915-1943.
United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 22nd --Biography.
Bomber pilots--United States--Biography.
B-17 bomber.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area.
World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States.
Biographies.
Lucky 666 : the impossible mission / Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - viii, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Maps on end pages.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-341) and index.
Wanderlust -- The wild blue yonder -- Jay & Joe -- "The sacred duty of the leading race" -- The fortress -- The winds of war -- The Japanese Citadel -- Into the fight -- Breaking the code -- The renegade pilot -- The Bulldog -- A microscopic metropolis -- Ken's men -- A place where trouble started -- "Clear as a bell" -- The missing General -- Pushing North -- A fine reunion -- "A motley collection of outcasts" -- Blood on the Bismarck Sea -- The flight of the geishas -- Old 666 -- The outlaws -- No position is safe -- New additions -- "Hell, no!" -- Buka -- "Give 'em hell!" -- The desperate dive -- Get it home -- "He's all right" -- Dobodura.
The "untold story of friendship, heroism and survival in World War II"--Book jacket.
9781476774855 1476774854 9781476774862 1476774862
40026606389
2016017924
Zeamer, Jay, Jr., 1918-2007.
Sarnoski, Joe, 1915-1943.
United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 22nd --Biography.
Bomber pilots--United States--Biography.
B-17 bomber.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area.
World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States.
Biographies.