Glines, Carroll V.
Four Came Home by Carroll V. Glines - New Jersey D. Van Nostrand Co. 1966 - 227 p.
Includes Index
"Take only volunteers!" --
"This force is bound for Tokyo!" --
The last flight of "The Green Hornet" --
Earmarked for disaster --
"Blow it out of your barracks bag, Buster!" --
Trial and consequences --
Two more years of hell --
Three years, four months and one week --
Trial and punishment : the American way --
The last to return.
"In 1945, four emaciated American airmen were released from a Japanese prison in Peking, China. Their release made immediate headlines around the world and their poignant story answered a riddle that had mystified the Air Force since their disappearance forty months before. These men were the surviving members of two B-25 crews that had followed the famous Jimmy Doolittle on his epic raid to Japan."--Page ix.
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Japanese--Prisoners and prisons--1939-1945
940.547252 Gli 15
Four Came Home by Carroll V. Glines - New Jersey D. Van Nostrand Co. 1966 - 227 p.
Includes Index
"Take only volunteers!" --
"This force is bound for Tokyo!" --
The last flight of "The Green Hornet" --
Earmarked for disaster --
"Blow it out of your barracks bag, Buster!" --
Trial and consequences --
Two more years of hell --
Three years, four months and one week --
Trial and punishment : the American way --
The last to return.
"In 1945, four emaciated American airmen were released from a Japanese prison in Peking, China. Their release made immediate headlines around the world and their poignant story answered a riddle that had mystified the Air Force since their disappearance forty months before. These men were the surviving members of two B-25 crews that had followed the famous Jimmy Doolittle on his epic raid to Japan."--Page ix.
43502
Japanese--Prisoners and prisons--1939-1945
940.547252 Gli 15