In the Hands of Fate - Messimer, Dwight R
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Patrol Wing Ten was the only U.S. Navy aviation unit to fight the Japanese in the early weeks of World War II, and the daring exploits of its PBY scout-plane pilots offer a dramatic tale of heroism, duty, and controversy. Poorly equipped and dead tired from flying back-to-back patrols with no fighter cover, the men lost sixty-six percent of thei...

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Patrol Wing Ten was the only U.S. Navy aviation unit to fight the Japanese in the early weeks of World War II, and the daring exploits of its PBY scout-plane pilots offer a dramatic tale of heroism, duty, and controversy. Poorly equipped and dead tired from flying back-to-back patrols with no fighter cover, the men lost sixty-six percent of thei...
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Dwight R. Messimer was raised in California and is a U.S. Army veteran. Following his discharge in 1962 he obtained his MA in history and was a history professor at San Jose State University, as well as a sergeant in the San Jose Police Department. He is also the author of The Baltimore Sabotage Cell: German Agents, American Traitors, and the U-Boat Deutschland during World War I and Eleven Months to Freedom: A German POW's Unlikely Escape from Siberia in 1915.