The Mustangs of Iwo

摘要

Any pilot who has flown a single-engine airplane be- yond sight of land has ex- perienced the syndrome:enhanced hearing and a pessimisticanticipation of trouble. But imaginea 1,500-mile combat mission over thePacific Ocean, with the only landfalloccupied by people who cut off theheads of captured airmen-or worse.Such was the world of the airmenflying the Mustangs of Iwo Jima.