This Collection Consists of 4 Stories $29.95

Story 1

Top Secret Operation Sunburst Down
During the year following the Pearl Harbor attack that opened WWII for America, the new Pacific Command in Hawaii intercepted, decoded and translated a message from Admiral Yamamoto in Japan to his forward commander on Bougainville listing his intended Command Visit itinerary.
This story is a cockpit narration from War Journals describing how the American fighters based on Guadalcanal finally intercepted and shot down Admiral Yamamoto.

This story, told by the author, won the 2002 Gold Medal as 'Best War Story' at the Raconteurs Internationals annual worldwide encampment of ten thousand storytellers held that year near Tashkent, Uzbeckistan.

Story 2

Power of Persistence
Arguably the strongest force at large in war anywhere is the caring love of brother-for-brother that develops between two 'service buddies' who fly together, fight together or sail together in combat.

Whether they have to lay down their lives for one another or just side-by-side go through the endless hours away from home, at reveille, in the chow line, running and chanting, creeping forward in the dark or sharing their secrets in the barracks bunk house, this uncommon power is what this story is about.

Story 3

A Sky Full of Airplanes
The 6th of August 1945 was the day following the first atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Just after midnight, Admiral Nimitz intercepted a message in the Imperial Hiruko Code.

Emperor Hirohito had ordered all remaining Japanese air forces to simultaneously kamikaze strike all allied airbases in the Ryukyus, including carriers.

As the day broke across the Pacific, Admiral Nimitz made an emergency radio call in the clear to all allied air enroute to pre-assigned targets in Japan to jettison bombs, then attack and destroy the Japanese strike force. These two air arms, totaling roughly 1000 aircraft, met over the Tokara Straits north of Okinawa. Here is one pilot's report of that wildest encounter of WWII.

Story 4

Escorting General MacArthur
Shortly after President Truman and Douglas MacArthur's 15 October 1950 meeting at Wake Island to firm up the allied strategy for pursuing the Korean War, General Mac, escorted by a flight of F-86s flew a personal reconnaissance along the Yalu River in North Korea.

He wanted to verify how the Rules of Engagement restricted the allied air from striking any supplies or bases in Manchuria and how this restriction affected his ability to defeat the enemy Chinese. I led one flight of his escort. This is my story of the mission.