Authors: Wil S. Hylton
Cover
: Palau island. Photograph by Tim Hetherington.
Frontispiece
: The Big Stoop crew, July 11, 1944 (back: Robert Stinson, Ted Goulding, Jimmie Doyle, Johnny Moore, Leland Price, Earl Yoh, Mario Campora; front: Norman Coorssen, Frank Arhar, Art Schumacher). Courtesy of Tommy and Nancy Doyle.
Maps
: Drawn by Aaron Becker.
Prologue
: Navy divers in Palau, 2008. Photograph by Christopher Perez, courtesy of JPAC.
Chapter One
: Jimmie Doyle, 1943. Courtesy of Tommy and Nancy Doyle.
Chapter Two
: Pat Scannon on a Corsair in Palau. Courtesy of Flip Colmer.
Chapter Three
: The Big Stoop crew in B-24 training, Tonopah, Nevada, May 1944. Courtesy of Gary Coorssen.
Chapter Four
: The Arnett map. Courtesy of the National Archives.
Chapter Five
: Tent City, Los Negros Island. Courtesy of the National Archives.
Chapter Six
: Jack Arnett, 1943. Courtesy of Carolyn Arnett Rocchio.
Chapter Seven
: A POW/MIA flag. Courtesy of the National League of POW/MIA Families.
Chapter Eight
: B-24 bombers on a mission over Palau. Courtesy of the National Archives.
Chapter Nine
: A BentProp challenge coin. Courtesy of Pat Scannon.
Chapter Ten
: Wakde Island. Courtesy of the National Archives.
Chapter Eleven
: Kempei-tai commander Aritsune Miyazaki. Courtesy of the National Archives.
Chapter Twelve
: Bob Hope on Wakde, August 25, 1944. Courtesy of the National Archives.
Chapter Thirteen
: The white spots. Courtesy of the National Archives.
Chapter Fourteen
: Johnny Moore’s empty grave. Photograph by Wil Hylton.
Chapter Fifteen
: A Navy diver prepares to splash. Photograph by Christopher Perez, courtesy of JPAC.
Chapter Sixteen
: Scannon scours a cave for evidence. Courtesy of Katie Rasdorf.
Chapter Seventeen
: The burial caisson at Arlington. Courtesy of Flip Colmer.