Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
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hordes of mosquitoes. “You kill one,” Phil wrote, “and ten more come to the funeral.”
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35,933 AAF planes were lost in combat and accidents. The surprise of the attrition rate is that only a fraction of the ill-fated planes were lost in combat. In 1943 in the Pacific Ocean Areas theater in which Phil’s crew served, for every plane lost in combat, some six planes were lost in accidents. Over time, combat took a greater toll, but combat losses never overtook noncombat
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Life was cheap in war.”