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Two days later, his deadeye aim contributed to the destruction of a third Japanese warship, the cruiser \u003cem\u003eMikuma, \u003c\/em\u003ethereby making Dusty the only pilot from either side to land hits on three different ships, all of which sank--losses that crippled the once-fearsome Japanese fleet. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy battle's end, the humble young sailor from Kansas had earned his place in history--and yet he stayed silent for decades, living quietly with his children and his wife, Jean, whom he married less than a month after Midway. Now his extraordinary and long-awaited memoir, \u003cem\u003eNever Call Me a Hero, \u003c\/em\u003etells the Navy Cross recipient's full story for the first time, offering an unprecedentedly intimate look at the \"the decisive contest for control of the Pacific in World War II\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e)--and one man's essential role in helping secure its outcome. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDusty worked on this book for years with naval historians Timothy and Laura Orr, aiming to publish \u003cem\u003eNever Call Me a Hero \u003c\/em\u003efor Midway's seventy-fifth anniversary in June 2017. Sadly, as the book neared completion in 2016, Dusty Kleiss passed away at age 100, one of the last surviving dive-bomber pilots to have fought at Midway. 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(j.g.) \"Dusty\" Kleiss burst out of the clouds and piloted his SBD Dauntless into a near-vertical dive aimed at the heart of Japan's Imperial Navy, which six months earlier had ruthlessly struck Pearl Harbor. The greatest naval battle in history raged around him, its outcome hanging in the balance as the U.S. desperately searched for its first major victory of the Second World War. Then, in a matter of seconds, Dusty Kleiss's daring 20,000-foot dive helped forever alter the war's trajectory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlummeting through the air at 240 knots amid blistering anti-aircraft fire, the twenty-six-year-old pilot from USS \u003cem\u003eEnterprise\u003c\/em\u003e's elite Scouting Squadron Six fixed on an invaluable target--the aircraft carrier \u003cem\u003eKaga, \u003c\/em\u003eone of Japan's most important capital ships. He released three bombs at the last possible instant, then desperately pulled out of his gut-wrenching 9-g dive. As his plane leveled out just above the roiling Pacific Ocean, Dusty's perfectly placed bombs struck the carrier's deck, and \u003cem\u003eKaga\u003c\/em\u003e erupted into an inferno from which it would never recover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArriving safely back at \u003cem\u003eEnterprise, \u003c\/em\u003e Dusty was met with heartbreaking news: his best friend was missing and presumed dead along with two dozen of their fellow naval aviators. Unbowed, Dusty returned to the air that same afternoon and, remarkably, would fatally strike another enemy carrier, \u003cem\u003eHiryu\u003c\/em\u003e. Two days later, his deadeye aim contributed to the destruction of a third Japanese warship, the cruiser \u003cem\u003eMikuma, \u003c\/em\u003ethereby making Dusty the only pilot from either side to land hits on three different ships, all of which sank--losses that crippled the once-fearsome Japanese fleet. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy battle's end, the humble young sailor from Kansas had earned his place in history--and yet he stayed silent for decades, living quietly with his children and his wife, Jean, whom he married less than a month after Midway. Now his extraordinary and long-awaited memoir, \u003cem\u003eNever Call Me a Hero, \u003c\/em\u003etells the Navy Cross recipient's full story for the first time, offering an unprecedentedly intimate look at the \"the decisive contest for control of the Pacific in World War II\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e)--and one man's essential role in helping secure its outcome. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDusty worked on this book for years with naval historians Timothy and Laura Orr, aiming to publish \u003cem\u003eNever Call Me a Hero\u003c\/em\u003e for Midway's seventy-fifth anniversary in June 2017. Sadly, as the book neared completion in 2016, Dusty Kleiss passed away at age 100, the last surviving dive-bomber pilot to have fought at Midway. 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Ten never came back. This is the story of that crew--where they came from, how they trained, what it was like to fly a B-24 through enemy flak, and who was waiting for them to come home.Historian Thomas Childers, nephew of the \u003cem\u003eBlack Cat\u003c\/em\u003e's radio operator, has reconstructed the lives and tragic deaths of these men through their letters home and through in-depth interviews, both with their families and with German villagers who lived near the crash site. In so doing he unearths confusion about the exact number of crash survivors and ugly rumors of their fate at the hands of the German villagers. His search to determine what really happened leads him to the crash site outside of Regensburg to lay the mystery to rest.In the tradition of \u003cem\u003eYoung Men and Fire, Wings of Morning\u003c\/em\u003e is history as commemoration-an evocation of people and events that brings to life a story of love, loss, and a family's quest for truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn April 21, 1945, the twelve-member crew of the Black Cat set off on one of the last air missions in the European theater of WWII. Ten never came back. This is the story of that crew - where they came from, how they trained, what it was like to fly a B-24 through enemy flak, and who was waiting for them to come home. 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