Fiske Hanley

Accused War Criminal (eBook, ePUB)

An American Kempei Tai Survivor

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A WWII Air Force Cadet shares his incredible story of serving his country and being shot down over Japan in this vivid POW memoir.

The day after Fisk Hanley graduated from Texas Technical College, in May of 1943, he boarded a train for Boca Raton, Florida, where he would begin his training as an Air Force Aviation Cadet. Like so many other young men that year, Hanley had been drafted to serve the United States in the Second World War.

Assigned to the 504th Bombardment Group in the Pacific Theater, Hanley became a flight engineer on a B-29 bomber squad. On his seventh mission, he and his crew were shot down over Japan. In Accused War Criminal, Hanley shares his experiences from his training and commissioning to his deployment on a failed mission that led to his capture. He recounts how he managed to survive as a prisoner of war until his eventual rescue and recovery. With candid honesty and telling details, this is a humbling and harrowing tale of one man's bravery under unimaginable circumstances.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brown Books Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781612544595
• Artikelnr.: 59066094

Autorenporträt

On his seventh mission, Fiske Hanley and the ten other men of his crew were shot down over Japan. Lieutenant Hanley arrived on Japanese soil via parachute and thus began his harrowing experience as a prisoner of war-an accused American war criminal. On August 29, 1945, Lieutenant Hanley was liberated by a Navy-Marine task force led by Commander Harold E. Stassen, Deputy Chief of Staff to Admiral Halsey. Hanley returned to the United States. He remained an Air Force reservist and pursued a forty-three-year aeronautical engineering career with Convair/General Dynamics. Hanley checked out the first Air Force crews in the B-36 Peacemaker bomber and helped engineer the B-36, YC-131, B-58, F-111, and the F-16. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas.