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""A fast moving account of the final days of a world changing war."" -Kirkus Reviews On April 6, 1945, author Larry Lindsey's father, a tank commander with Patton's 3rd, crossed the battle lines at Rinteln, Germany, in an unarmed jeep and single-handedly convinced over two thousand Nazis to surrender without firing a single shot. On that same day, during the most intense kamikaze attack of the war, the author's father-in-law, a Navy pilot in a Grumman Hellcat, shot down a Japanese Zero over Okinawa to become a fighter-pilot ace. Two fathers, two different war fronts on opposite sides of the world: Tanker Turk and Hellcat Dan relates the harrowing paths that brought these two heroes to that fateful day in April. Written like a novel and revolving around the hopes, hardships, and fears involved in long separations from home, this story highlights the serendipitous twists of fate that often occur in times of war.

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""Balances military precision with human death."" -Juliette Carter, UPWORK partner ""Powerful! . . . It's rare to see a work that highlights duty, honor, and restraint alongside action."" -Bookhub

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Larry Allen Lindsey is a disabled Navy veteran who served two tours serving on a recommissioned World War II ship sailing up and down the rivers of Vietnam. It was the same vessel that landed his father on the beaches of Normandy in 1944. Lindsey is a Princeton University graduate, and his previous novels were finalists for both the CIBA Hemingway Award and the Eric Hoffer Book Award. He also won the 2025 ABF American Fiction Award. Born and raised in northeast Ohio, Lindsey currently resides in sunnier San Diego but still remains a die-hard-if long-suffering-Cleveland Browns fan.

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