THE SAW-WHET NUMBER 40788

About the Book

I am at a loss on how to express this extraordinary story other than fantastic and bizarre. You tell me? This story like so many others is a World War Two Scenario that was saved, reported and like so many others did not just fade away. It begins on the Island of Oahu in Hawaii where a young boy John Murphy Jr. a.k.a. Little John whose love of airplanes and flying becomes lost on a solo flight early one morning. A miracle saves his young life as he finds and lands on a Japanese Aircraft Carrier and becomes a Ward of a Japanese Naval Officer. Unable to return to his Oahu home he is trapped and transported to Japan. There he is unofficially adopted by a wonderful Japanese family and raised on their beautiful Wagyu Beef Cattle Ranch. As you read this story you will become overwhelmed at the events that occur throughout Little John’s young life and the final surprising outcome.

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