Joe Foss, Flying Marine
Subtitle: The Story Of His Flying Circus, As Told To Walter Simmons
Contributors: Simmons, Walter.
Publisher: Books, inc., distributed by E.P. Dutton & Co., inc.
Published: 1943
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Solomon Islands.
Notes: "First edition."
Table of contents: title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; title: Joe and his pilots in a pre-battle planning session Frontispiece; title: FACING PAGE; title: The farmhouse where Joe Foss was born 14; title: Joe and his brother Clifford as infants 14; title: End of a successful pheasant hunt by the Foss kids 15; title: Clifford Foss feeds stock on the farm 15; title: Joe at the age of twenty 32; title: Joe at the time he was commissioned as a Marine lieutenant 32; title: Grumman fighters of the type piloted by Joe and his flying circus 33; title: Two of Joe's friends, Major Leonard (Duke) Davis and Sergeant Joe Palko 48; title: Staff Sergeant James Feliton and natives who rescued him 48; title: Joe discussing tactics with Major General Roy S. Geiger 49; title: FACING PAGE; title: Joe and "my boys" 80; title: A group picture of Joe's flight mates 80; title: Joe on Guadalcanal, wearing beard and old hunting cap 81; title: Lieutenant Colonel Sam Jack, fighter commander at Guadalcanal 96; title: Major Jack Cram, of Seattle, Washington 96; title: The flight on its second trip to Guadalcanal 97; title: Joe recuperating in New Caledonia from a malaria attack 112; title: Recovered from malaria, Joe heads back to Guadalcanal 113; title: Mrs. Mary Foss, his widowed mother, reads a letter from Joe by lamplight 128; title: Joe's wife, the former June Shakstad, and his mother 129