About 10 years ago. He came and visited the museum, gave a presentation on his book, and we have not managed to get him back here. We tried. He was going to come in april of this year, but of course things got out of hand, and we had to postpone that event indefinitely to talk on one of his other books. But im sure most of our viewers here today know many of johns books. Hell from the heavens, for crew and country, and tin can titans, which one the elliott won the Elliott Morrison naval literacy award. It was awarded regarded naval history. So congratulations on that. Many years belated. As i mentioned, john was supposed to come in april, and thankfully we were able to work in the Distance Learning team to bring these programs to you all. This one, specifically, has to do with our theme of the end of the war, specifically the 75th anniversary of the end of the war. We will get right do it so we can try to get as many of the audience questions, asked and answered by john. But im going t
Postpone that event indefinitely to talk on one of his other books. But im sure most of our viewers here today know many of johns books. Hell from the heavens, for crew and country, and tin can titans, which won the Elliott Morrison naval literacy award. It was awarded regarded naval history. So congratulations on that. Many years belated. As i mentioned, john was supposed to come in april, and thankfully we were able to work with our colleagues in the Distance Learning team to bring these programs to you all. This one, specifically, has to do with our theme of the end of the war, specifically the 75th anniversary of the end of the war. We will get right to it so we can try to get as many of the audience questions, asked and answered by john. But im going to start with a handful of my own questions first. John, lets give the audience a brief summary for those of you that have not read the book. Give us a brief summary of dogfight over tokyo, please. John well, dogfight over tokyo expla
From the carrier uss yorktown, attacked over japan after receiving word the war ended. The National World War Ii Museum hosted this online event and provided the video. Thank you all for joining us today for whats going to be a great conversation about a really engaging and book that maybe should have been written before john got to it in the last 75 years since the war. Dog fight over tokyo. Its a great book. He is the author of many books, john wukovits. He came to us about ten years ago, we were just talking about this, came and gave a presentation on his book about boyington book and we have not managed to get him back here. We tried and he was going to come in april of this year but of course things got a little out of hand and we had to postpone that event indefinitely to talk on one of his other books. But im sure most of our viewers today know many of johns books. Hell from the heavens, for crew and country, and then tin can titans which won the Samuel Elliott morrison naval li
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