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Genre: Historical Books; History Books; Books about WWII, WW2 History Books; WW2 Missions; Pacific war books; Military Pilots and aircraft books
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. One of those nine was miraculously rescued by a U.S. Navy
submarine. The others were captured by Japanese soldiers on Chichi Jima
and held prisoner. Then they disappeared. When the war was over, the
American government, along with the Japanese, covered up everything that
had happened on Chichi Jima. The records of a top-secret military
tribunal were sealed, the lives of the eight Flyboys were erased, and
the parents, brothers, sisters, and sweethearts they left behind were
left to wonder.
Flyboys
reveals for the first time ever the extraordinary story of those men.
Bradley's quest for the truth took him from dusty attics in American
small towns, to untapped government archives containing classified
documents, to the heart of Japan, and finally to Chichi Jima itself.
What he discovered was a mystery that dated back far before World War
II-back 150 years, to America's westward expansion and Japan's first
confrontation with the western world. Bradley brings into vivid focus
these brave young men who went to war for their country, and through
their lives he also tells the larger story of two nations in a hellish
war.
With no easy moralizing, Bradley presents history in all
its savage complexity, including the Japanese warrior mentality that
fostered inhuman brutality and the U.S. military strategy that justified
attacks on millions of civilians. And, after almost sixty years of
mystery, Bradley finally reveals the fate of the eight American Flyboys,
all of whom would ultimately face a moment and a decision that few of
us can even imagine.
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. A masterpiece of
historical narrative, Flyboys will change forever our understanding of the Pacific war and the very things we fight for.