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Chapter 7 “This Is It, Boys” Summary Crew is stationed in Kahuku, Hawaii, Louie and Phil spend their days drinking, wrestling, and decorating their barracks. Moznette, the copilot, is transferred and replaced by Charleton Hugh Cuppernell, who is an ex-football player The whole crew is doing well in training, accuracy rate is 3 times the squadron average. 3 days before Christmas, they get first dive bomb mission. They are headed for Midway, and ordered to bomb a Japanese base on Wake Atoll that night, the mission would take 16 hours.
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Chapter 7 summary cont. In honor of his friend Payton Jordan, who just wed, Louie writes “Maggie and Payton Jordan” on a bomb They bomb Wake, not knowing that there are 98 American POWs on base The mission is a success and all American captives survive. Louie and his crew feel that the war will be over soon.
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Chapter 9 Summary…954 holes Japan seizes the island of Nauru in August 1942, and the Super Man is ordered to bomb the phosphate works on the island. They get into an intense air battle. Their left wing is hit, but Louie stays focused and hits his targets. When Phil takes control, they're surrounded by nine Zeros. Men are hit by shrapnel and gunfire and lie bleeding all over the plane. Harry Brooks is covered with blood. The plane is leaking hydraulic fluid, which leaves the plane without breaks
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Chapter 9 Cont… Louie and Cuppernell tend to everyone's wounds as fast as they can. As Louie is bandaging Stanley Pillsbury's foot, Pillsbury manages to blast a Zero out of the sky. Despite being in critical condition, the Super Man survives the battle. Not one Zero makes it back to Nauru. Now it's time for Phil to land the plane. Funafuti is five hours away, and Super Man has no brakes. Louie ties a parachute cord to each man to serve like a seatbelt, keeping them from being ejected from the plane.
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Chapter 9 cont. Phil touches down at 110 miles per hour. The left tire is flat, and the plane spins around in a crazy circle… but it stops. There are 594 holes in the plane. Unfortunately, Harry was bleeding inside his skull and died.
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Chapter 10 “The Stinking 6” Summary Even though Phil managed to land it safely, Super Man will never fly again. To make matters worse, while Louie and the crew of Super Man are recovering from their injuries, bombs fall on Funafuti. Poor Stanley Pillsbury is forgotten in the infirmary and is too weak to stand on his own. Phil and Louie hide under a hut that is up on flood stilts. Two bombs strike the B-24s, which causes a chain reaction of machine gun fire and bomb explosions.
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Chapter 10 continued… Someone managed to drag Pillsbury to safety, but his injured foot isn't healing, and he needs a rudimentary skin graft. Somehow the Super Man also escaped unscathed (not a single bullet hole added to its 594) and Phil is hailed "as a miracle worker” Pillsbury and Lambert are retired from war, and Louie, Phil, Mitchell, and Cuppernell are sent back to Hawaii. Louie takes a short ride on the Green Hornet, a plane which he dubs "the craziest plane" and "hopes he'd never have to fly in it again”
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Chapter 11…Nobody’s Going to Live Through This Louie and his crew are put on the Green Hornet and sent on a search mission. Before he leaves, Louie leaves a note on his locker: "If we're not back in a week […] help yourself to the booze" The Green Hornet sets out with the Daisy Mae, but is such a crappy plane it can't keep up. The Green Hornet is failing fast, the engines are burning fuel unequally and quickly fail. They try to save the plane by "feathering" the engines, but that tactic doesn't work—the men prepare to crash.
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Chapter 11 Cont… When the plane hits the water, Louie is sucked under. He gets tangled in cords and debris and passes out momentarily. When he wakes up, he's floating inside the fuselage, in water filled with blood, gasoline, and oil. His USC ring catches on something and cuts his finger, but he realizes that he's stuck to the window, which orients him. He kicks away from the sinking plane and bursts out of the water, into the sunlight. Louie has survived.
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