Chippewa Chief in World War II
Subtitle: The Survival Story of Oliver Rasmussen in Japan
Contributors: Charles E. Yeager (Foreword)
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: July 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780786409945
Subjects: American history: Second World War; European history: Second World War; Indigenous peoples; c 1800 to c 1900; History; History - General History; Military; Europe; USA; Military - General; Military - World War II; Native American; 1922-1980; Aviation; Biography; Japan; Navy; Petty officers; Rasmussen, Oliver,; Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc; United States; United States.; World War, 1939-1945
Description: "This is the true story of Oliver Bullard Rasmussen, a U.S. Navy aircrewman who avoided capture after his plane crashed in Japan on July 14, 1945, leaving his pilot dead and him seriously wounded. He dodged the Japanese on Hokkaido for 68 days until he saw his first fellow American. Rasmussen healed himself, relying on his Chippewa knowledge of how to survive in the wild and staying alive by raiding farms at night. The account is drawn from tapes of interviews with Rasmussen about his ordeal and personal records and other material from his family. Beginning with Rasmussen's life as a young boy growing up on a poverty-stricken Chippewa reservation in northern Wisconsin, the book then details at length Rasmussen's almost unbelievable ordeal.

Also included is information on his top-secret role in the Navy's only nuclear weapons squadron."--Jacket.