Wake Island Pilot
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Wake Island Pilot
| Author | : John F. Kinney |
| Publisher | : Potomac Books |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
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Within hours of the Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese struck the small U.S. garrison on Wake Island. As his squadron's engineering officer, Marine pilot John F. Kinney oversaw the repair of damaged planes when he himself was not in the air fighting off the Japanese assault. After the Americans held out for an incredible two weeks, Kinney was captured by the Japanese but eventually escaped in China. Wake Island Pilot is the memoir of a remarkable hero of one of World War II's epic struggles. Book jacket.
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