Lucky 666 : the impossible mission

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Label

Lucky 666 : the impossible mission

Title remainder

the impossible mission

Statement of responsibility

by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin

Title variation

Lucky six hundred and sixty-six

Creator

• trueDrury, Bob

Contributor

• trueClavin, Thomas

Author

• trueClavin, Thomas
• trueDrury, Bob

Subject

• trueBomber pilots -- United States -- Biography
• United States, Army Air Forces | Bombardment Group, 22nd -- Biography
• trueWorld War II -- Aerial operations, American
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States
• trueBomber pilots
• Zeamer, Jay, Jr, 1918-2007
• Biographies
• trueB-17 bomber

Genre

• trueBiographies
• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

It is 1942, the Japanese war machine has rolled up nearly all of the Pacific Theater, and American forces are clinging to what little unconquered territory remains. While US Marines claw their way across Guadalcanal, small contingents of US Army Airmen make their way to the lonely, embattled Allied airbase on Papua New Guinea. Their mission: to defend Australia from invasion, harass Japanese supply lines, fly perilous bombing missions over enemy-held strongholds, and make reconnaissance runs to provide intelligence for America s nascent island-hopping campaign. Among these men are the pilot Captain Jay Zeamer and the bombardier Sergeant Joseph Raymond Sarnoski, whose swashbuckling reputations precede them. Zeamer, who cannot convince his superiors to give him his own plane, teams up with Sarnoski to recruit a crew of fellow misfits to rebuild a dilapidated B-17 bomber from spare parts in the base s junkyard. They christen the plane Old 666, naming it from its tail identification numbers. In June 1943, Zeamer and Sarnoski and their crew volunteer for a 1200-mile suicide mission into the heart of the Japanese Empire that may well change the course of the war but which only one of the two friends will survive

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Writing style

• trueEngaging

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

• 940.54/4973092
• B

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography