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Flyboys : a true story of courage
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- Summary
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Tells the harrowing true story of nine American airmen shot down in the Pacific in World War II.
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- Creator
- James Bradley
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st Back Bay pbk. ed
- New York : Back Bay Books, 2004
- Physical Details
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- 404 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 0316159433, 9780316159432, 1417665246, 9781417665242
- OCLC
- ocm57319477
- Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 2003. With new afterword by author concerning identity of executed "unidentified airman" (Warren Hindenlang) and Glenn Frazier.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-384) 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 -- Afterword to the paperback edition
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Japan -- Chichi Island.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Chichi Island.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Biography.
- Chichi Island (Japan) -- History, Military -- 20th century.
- 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.