“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.