“The Last Fighter Pilot” says when the service saw those scores, Schlamberg was offered his pick of jobs and chose to be a fighter pilot.
During that trip, he saw Japanese war veterans up close and felt a kinship, he said.
Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty ImagesFitting endingsYellin died in December 2017, shortly after “The Last Fighter Pilot” was published.
In the foreword to “The Last Fighter Pilot,” Yellin recounted how World War II’s end was fitting for the times.
“And that the final combat life in the defense of freedom would be laid down by a teenage Jewish fighter pilot who had not yet learned to even drive a car.”
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