Jungle Ace
| By: | John R. Bruning |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9781574886948 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781612340869 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Flying P-38s, Jerry Johnson shot down 24 aircraft in 265 combat missions in the Pacific theater. At the age of only twenty-four, he commanded the highest-scoring fighter group in the Pacific. Tragically, though Johnson had survived three combat tours, which included a mid-air collision with a Japanese aircraft and being shot down by friendly fire, the new father disappeared without a trace while flying a courier mission one month after the war’s end.