Local Author's Fictional Look at a Yuma Army Pilot

Chuck Wullenjohn released his book, Decision on Corregidor this year.  It is the story of a young pilot from Yuma who joins up just before the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.  He finds himself stationed in the Philippines, where U.S. and Filipino soldiers find themselves facing an enemy that is more prepared and ready for battle than some cared to admit at the time.  The novel follows young Ed Bannon’s attempts to scrape by after an attack by the Japanese leaves him and his fellow soldiers struggling not just to fight a war but to eat.  KAWC asked Wullenjohn why he was drawn to this story set against the backdrop of what became the greatest military defeat of the U.S. Army in military history.