02192cam a2200373 i 4500 1262078822 TxAuBib 030305s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2003044725 9780316105842 hc 0316105848 hc (OCoLC)20712 DLC eng rda DLC BAKER BTCTA LMR CGW YDXCP OCLCG XXH ZE3 GEBAY HNW TXBXL BDX OCLCQ CNGNQ OCLCO OCLCQ BLC TxAuBib rda Bradley, James. Flyboys : a true story of courage / James Bradley. First edition. Boston : Little, Brown, 2003. 398 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 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 and held by Japanese soldiers on Chichi Jima and held prisoner. Then they disappeared. World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities Japan Chichi Island. World War, 1939-1945 Japan Chichi Island. World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese Biography. Air pilots, Military United States Biography. Prisoners of war United States History 20th century. Prisoners of war Japan Chichi Island History 20th century. War crime trials Guam. Chichi Island (Japan) History, Military 20th century. Biographies.