Bradley, James
Flyboys a true story of courage / James Bradley - 1st ed. - Boston : Little, Brown, c2003. - 398 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., 1 map ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-378) and index.
Declassified --
Civilize-ation --
Spirit war --
The third dimension --
The rape of China --
The ABCD encirclement --
Flyboys --
doing the impossible --
Airpower --
Yellow devils, white devils --
To the Pacific --
Carrier war --
No mans land --
No surrender --
Kichiku --
Fire war --
Enduring the unendurable --
Casualties of war.
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers--Navy and Marine airmen 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.
0316105848 (hc)
2003044725
World War--Atrocities--Japan--Chichi Island.--1939-1945
World War--Japan--Chichi Island.--1939-1945
World War--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese--1939-1945--Biography
Air pilots, Military--United States--Biography
Prisoners of war--History--United States--20th century.
Prisoners of war--History--Japan--Chichi Island--20th century.
War crime trials--Guam
Chichi Island (Japan)--History, Military--20th century.
D804.J3 / B73 2003
940.540509528 Bra 15
Flyboys a true story of courage / James Bradley - 1st ed. - Boston : Little, Brown, c2003. - 398 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., 1 map ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-378) and index.
Declassified --
Civilize-ation --
Spirit war --
The third dimension --
The rape of China --
The ABCD encirclement --
Flyboys --
doing the impossible --
Airpower --
Yellow devils, white devils --
To the Pacific --
Carrier war --
No mans land --
No surrender --
Kichiku --
Fire war --
Enduring the unendurable --
Casualties of war.
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers--Navy and Marine airmen 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.
0316105848 (hc)
2003044725
World War--Atrocities--Japan--Chichi Island.--1939-1945
World War--Japan--Chichi Island.--1939-1945
World War--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese--1939-1945--Biography
Air pilots, Military--United States--Biography
Prisoners of war--History--United States--20th century.
Prisoners of war--History--Japan--Chichi Island--20th century.
War crime trials--Guam
Chichi Island (Japan)--History, Military--20th century.
D804.J3 / B73 2003
940.540509528 Bra 15