[Slump Tester]

Are you sure that author's name is right? I just went online to our library system here in Columbus and couldn't find it. (Very odd, as they usually have anything I'm looking for!) They have a couple others called "The last mission" though.

There's one by Jim Smith that says "A gripping account of the final American bombing mission of World War II and how it prevented a military coup that would have kept Japan in…"

Is this the one you are talking about?

[Northern Yankee]

Yep... must get more coffee in the morning. Jim Smith is the author. (Sorry about that!)

My father was part of that mission. My dad ended up having to land at Iwo Jima after he lost an engine over Japan. The day he arrived back at Guam the war was over.