Heros Erased - The Flight of Richard Bong

"Cash and Cutter Bridger's father left them a mission: use the time-hopping tape recorder he built, listen to the tapes, and restore the heroes that were erased. The first tape taught them what a hero looks like. The second one is about to teach Cash what a hero does. Pappy Gunn was a forty-two-year-old dad, a mechanic, and the most dangerous man in the Pacific. When the enemy captured his wife and four kids, Pappy didn't wait for orders. He stole parts, welded them together in a hangar at two in the morning, and built a weapon no one had ever seen. Then he flew it straight into the fight with a lizard on his shoulder. Now his story has been erased, and only Cash and Cutter can bring it back. But a familiar enemy has talked his way inside their home. A new conductor has Cash under his thumb. And Cash's own carelessness is leaving a trail that could end the mission for good. Cutter warned him: when you don't care, you become careless. When you're careless, you get caught."