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Sep 30, 2003 · Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. Flyboys, a story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor, tells the story of those men.
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Nov 23, 2016 · Flyboys: A True Story of Courage by James Bradley Little, Brown and Company, Boston, New York and London, 2003, $25.95. CHICHI JIMA, A SMALL volcanic island near Iwo Jima, is unknown to the American public and little noted in history. Yet events took place on that tiny speck of rock during World War II that illustrate and symbolize the madness ...
Sep 30, 2003 · An episodic account of a little-covered arena in the much-covered genre of WWII: close air combat in the war against Japan.
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FLYBOYS is a tough read, but it is more than worthwhile. Bradley balances his catalog of horrors with an admiring, appreciative look at the courage of the American flyers who won the war in the Pacific. FLYBOYS is a worthy testament to their efforts and their sacrifice.
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage is a 2003 nonfiction book by writer James Bradley, and was a national bestseller in the US. The book details a World War II incident of the execution and cannibalism of five of eight American POWs on the Pacific island of Chichi-jima, one of the Ogasawara Islands (Bonin Islands).
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Oct 23, 2003 · FLYBOYS. A True Story of Courage. By James Bradley. Illustrated. 398 pages. Little, Brown & Company. $25.95. ''Flyboys'' is the latest example of how easy it is to be ambushed...
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Feb 1, 2006 · Flyboys is a story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor. It is about how we die, and how we live-including the tale of the Flyboy who escaped capture, a young Navy pilot named George H. W. Bush who would one day become president of the United States.
