Tanker Turk and Hellcat Dan

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.