Last Flight of Bomber 31: Harrowing Tales of American and Japanese Pilots Who Fought World War II's Arctic Air Campaign

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Summary: Review of The Last Flight of Bomber 31
Review: This book was an interesting account of World War II in the Aleutian/Kurile Island area. Particularly fascinating was the detective work to unravel the identity of U.S. aircraft wreckage found on the Kamchatka Peninsula.

Unfortunately the book has numerous errors scattered throughout which detract from the work--several are listed below:

1) Book states battleship Haruna was sunk at Midway--not so.
2) Book states A-26s were active in the Aleutians in 1943--not so. The A-26 did not make it to the Pacific Theater until 1944 with initial debut in New Guinea.
3) The G4M Betty bomber is referred to variously as the Type 97, G3M, and GM-4.
4) Book refers to destroyer Charleston being involved in Attu invasion. The Charleston was not a destroyer--was officially designated PG-51.
5) Unexploded ordnance around PV-1 wreckage is referred to as 50mm cannon rounds. Most likely meant 50 caliber machine gun rounds.

It seems a lot of historical works I read today have a significant number of errors.