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The Indestructible Man - The Incredible True Story of the Legendary Sailor the Japanese Couldn't Kill (Hardcover)
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The Indestructible Man - The Incredible True Story of the Legendary Sailor the Japanese Couldn't Kill (Hardcover)
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Dixie Kiefer's reputation for durability began at the U.S. Naval
Academy, where he broke an ankle and shattered a kneecap while
playing football. After anti-submarine duty in World War I, he
became a pioneer of naval aviation and had an elbow shattered by a
plane that buzzed him as a joke. Kiefer's first World War II
assignment was executive officer of the carrier Yorktown. He earned
the Distinguished Service Medal at the Coral Sea and the Navy Cross
at Midway, where - as his ship was sinking - he suffered severe
burns to his hands and a compound fracture of his foot. After
recuperating, Kiefer took command of the Ticonderoga. In January
1945, Japanese kamikazes struck the carrier, killing and wounding
hundreds. Kiefer broke his arm and was struck by more than sixty
pieces of shrapnel - but remained on the bridge for twelve hours,
earning the Silver Star. Victim of ten wounds in two wars, veteran
of some of the U.S. Navy's most celebrated carriers and battles, a
naval aviation pioneer, Dixie Kiefer died in a stateside plane
crash two months after the war ended.
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