Jayhawk: Love, Loss, Liberation, and Terror Over the Pacific

by Jay A. Stout

Book Overview

The vivid story of Philippine-born George Cooper, who flew 74 missions over the Pacific.

Born in the Philippines to an American father and a Filipina mother, George Cooper was one of the few surviving veteran pilots who saw action over such fearsome targets as Rabaul and Wewak. Not just another flag-waving story of air combat, Jayhawk describes the war as it really was--a conflict with far-reaching tentacles that gripped and tore...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1636243045
• ISBN13: 9781636243047
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Casemate
• Length: 264 Pages