Kill Yamamoto: The Mission To Avenge Pearl Harbor - Part 1
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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Tom Landfear Junior - The Greatest Namedropper
At 24 years old, he found himself on fiji with tom and the rest of the seventieth squadron. Tom was a fun, smart guy, but this was a different side of him. Neither of them knew it yet, but that restless ambition in tom would eventually tear their friendship to shreds. The training regiment imposed on the japanese fighter pilots made what rex and tom went through in basic look like a pleasure cruise. As donald a davis writes, a japanese pilot had to be the best of the best in every way. They were as good as any pilots on earth, and better than most most planes they flew too.
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