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Fly Boy Heroes The Stories of the Medal of Honor Recipients of the Air War Against Japan [Audiobook]


Free Download Fly Boy Heroes: The Stories of the Medal of Honor Recipients of the Air War Against Japan (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZDT61CC | 2023 | 13 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 378 MB
Author: James H. Hallas
Narrator: Bob Souer

On the morning of December 7, 1941, Chief Aviation Ordnanceman John W. Finn, though suffering multiple wounds, continued to man his machine gun against waves of Japanese aircraft attacking the Kaneohe Bay Naval Station during the infamous Pearl Harbor raid. Just over three years later, as World War II struggled into its final months, a B-29 radioman named Red Erwin lingered near death after suffering horrific burns to save his air crew in the skies off Japan. They were the first and last of thirty U.S. Navy, Army, and Marine Corps aviation personnel awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions against the Japanese during World War II.

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