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Fighting The Night: Iwo Jima, World War Ii, And A FlyerS Life
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From The Acclaimed And BestSelling Author Of HemingwayS Boat, The Profoundly Moving Story Of His FatherS Wartime Service As A Night Fighter Pilot, And The Prices He And His Fellow Soldiers Paid For Their Acts Of Selfless, Patriotic Sacrificein The Fall Of 1944, Joe Paul Hendrickson, The AuthorS Father, Kissed His TwentyOneYearOld Wife And Two Baby Children Goodbye. The TwentyFiveYearOld First Lieutenant, Pilot Of A Famed P61 Black Widow, Was Leaving For The War. He And His Night Fighter Squadron Were Sent To Iwo Jima, Where, For The Last Five And A Half Months Of World War Ii, He Flew Approximately SeventyFive Missions, Largely In PitchBlack Conditions. His Wife Would Wait Out The War At The Home Of Her SmallTown Ohio Parents, One Of The Countless Numbers Of American Family Members Shouldering The Burden Of Being Left Behind.Joe Paul, The Son Of A DepressionPoor Kentucky Sharecropper, Was Fresh Out Of High School In 1937 When He Enlisted In Mechanic School In The Peacetime Army Air Corps. Eventually, He Was Able To Qualify For Flight School. After Marriage, And With The War On, The Young Officer And His Bride Crisscrossed The Country, Airfield To Airfield, Base To Base: Santa Ana, Yuma, Kissimmee, Bakersfield, Orlando, La Junta, Fresno. He Volunteered For Night Fighters And The Newly Arrived And Almost Mythic Black Widow. A World Away, The Carnage Continued. As Paul Hendrickson Tracks His Parents Journey, Together And Separate, Both Stateside And Overseas, He Creates A Vivid Portrait Of A HardToKnow Father Whose Time In The War, He Comes To Understand, Was Something Truly Heroic, But Never Without Its Hidden And Unhidden Psychic Costs.Bringing To Life An Iconic Moment Of American History, And The Tragedy Of All Wars, Fighting The Night Is An Intense And Powerful Story Of Violence And Love, Forgiveness And Loss. And It Is A Tribute To Those Who Got Plunged Into Service, In The Best Years Of Their Lives, And The Sacrifices They And Their Loved Ones Made, Then And Thereafter.
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