These pilots called themselves the 'Tokyo Club'. It was a simple task to become a member.
All you had to do was strap yourself into a heavily loaded P-51 Mustang, take off from Iwo Jima, fly 650 miles north over the sea – often through monsoon storms – in your single-engined aircraft to Japan, attack a heavily defended target and then turn around and fly home despite a shrinking fuel supply and perhaps battle damage as well. Do it once and you earned membership in the club. Do it 15 times and you earned a trip home. But make one mistake or have one touch of bad luck, and you had a very good chance of ending up dead.
Featuring photographs throughout and detailed aircraft profiles, this book tells the little-known story of these brave men and their efforts to defeat the aerial forces defending Japan.
| Published | Oct 20 2012 |
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| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 128 |
| ISBN | 9781782005810 |
| Imprint | Osprey Publishing |
| Illustrations | 80 b/w; 30 col |
| Series | Aviation Elite Units |
| Short code | AEU 21 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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