his brilliant “You Are There” personal approach through the experiences of seven men whoselives intersected in those air-runs of January 1945. The seven were Commander John D.Lamade, five of his U.S. Navy pilots, and British POW Ray Jones watching from the ground. Thus,we not only experience death, our boys alongside the Japanese, and destruction of a great,historic city, civilian killings where there was no count, but we also sense what genuineAmerican heroes were all about, men whose highest priorities were all about, integrity,generosity, selfless service, and unswerving adherence to our military excellence.In short, using oral histories, U.S. Navy documents, diaries, official documents from longforgotten Naval archives, this classic catches us up with a tough campaign action no one heardabout before. Not only does it surprise us WWII buffs, but we are both thankful andappreciative of not only Steven’s obvious meticulous research for this book, but his originaleffort in 2019, “Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942 –
1945”.
