<span>Here, one of America’s
 most popular military historians re-creates, using their own moving and
 powerful voices, the true stories of the U.S. Marine pilots who flew 
the Allies to victory in World War II. These riveting accounts recreate 
conflicts ranging from the Marines’ gallant defense of Wake Island, 
where Captain Henry “Baron” Elrod destroyed two enemy planes before 
joining the fight on the ground, earning a posthumous Medal of Honor in 
the last-ditch attempt to stave off the Japanese, to the Battle of 
Midway and Guadalcanal.<br><br>Running the gamut from Second Lieutenant 
Alvin Jensen’s single-handed destruction of twenty-four grounded 
Japanese aircraft on Kahili to Lieutenant John W. Leaper’s sawing off a 
Kamikaze’s tail with his propeller over Okinawa, these thrilling oral 
histories of the Pacific war’s air battles bring them to life in all 
their terror and triumph</span>

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