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Kawato, Masajiro "Mike."
FLIGHT INTO CONQUEST.
1978 Textual photos, illustrations, and maps. Phoenix, AZ: Associated Lithographers, 1978. An abridged special edition, fourth printing (revised). The World War II memoirs of Captain Masajiro "Mike" Kawato (1925-2001), the Japanese fighter pilot credited with downing legendary American ace Gregory "Pappy" Boyington. While flying a Zero for the Japanese Navy, Kawato claims to have downed 19 Allied planes while being shot down five times and wounded on 17 occasions. Kawato flew for a number of domestic airlines after the war, and eventually became a U.S. citizen. In 1976, in tribute to the U.S. Bicentennial and to honor the over 7,000 U.S. and Japanese pilots killed in the Pacific War, Kawato set a distance record by making the first non-stop solo flight in a single-engine aircraft from Tokyo and Crescent City, California, an adventure recounted herein. Inscribed and dated by Kawato on the front flyleaf. Pictorial boards somewhat edgeworn, with a minor bump to the top corner of the front panel; otherwise a very good copy.
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- ordernr.: BOOKS015412I
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