Have just read the (highly) abbreviated version on wikipedia -- he sounds like a remarkable character, very much in the Freddie Spencer Chapman mould: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_W._Volckmann#World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Spencer_Chapman#Malaya
It's amazing what those guys accomplished with little to nothing to start with, and less than no outside help. When reading about their exploits, I often think what would I do, or what could I do in a similar situation.
Pretty good...I have two copies. Right now I am re-reading his [SIZE=medium]"Islands of Destiny: The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun"[/SIZE]
The Island on Bird Street by Uri Orlev. Young adult book I am sharing with my class. An historical fiction based on his own experiences in the Warsaw ghetto.
I'm currently reading With the Jocks by Peter White. Like a lot of my purchases, I picked this up used by chance because there was one copy at a local store. I'm only a short ways into the book, but I find it extremely vivid and well-written. I've just read the part where he and a few others encounter a Tiger tank and are isolated from the rest of the platoon.
Holding up very well at this point, Some new information on the Japanese power structure I haven't seen before.
Now reading Carroll Glines' The Doolittle Raid: America's Daring First Strike Against Japan and Out of the Depths, memoir by USS Indianapolis survivor Edgar Harrell.
One hundred and eleven pages of preliminaries. I get the feeling he has the deck logs for every ships involved.
The Bible, but "Spearhead: A Complete History of Merrill's Marauder Rangers" is suppose to come in the mail today.... Excited!
A book named "Imprisoned Eagles" that is memo`s of a iranian Pilot Mohammad-Yussof Ahmadbeigee who was a POW.