Jayhawk: Love, Loss, Liberation, and Terror Over the Pacific

The vivid story of Philippine-born George Cooper, who flew 74 missions over the Pacific.

Born in the Philippines to an American father and a Filipina mother, George Cooper was one of the few surviving veteran pilots who saw action over such fearsome targets as Rabaul and Wewak. Not just another flag-waving story of air combat, Jayhawk describes the war as it really was—a conflict with far-reaching tentacles that gripped and tore at not only the combatants, but also their families, friends an...