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Bradley, James.
Flyboys :
a true story of courage /
James Bradley.
1st Back Bay paperback ed.
New York :
Back Bay Books,
2004.
404 :
illustrations, maps ;
21 cm.
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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.
Examines the disappearance of eight American airmen shot down and taken prisoner on the remote island of Chichi Jima in World War II and the secrecy that surrounded the events for decades, and discusses the violence inflicted by both sides in the Pacific War.
Adult
Follett Library Resources.
20170622.
Air pilots, Military
United States
Biography.
Prisoners of war
Japan
Chichi Island
History
20th century.
Prisoners of war
United States
History
20th century.
War crime trials
Guam.
World War, 1939-1945
Atrocities
Japan
Chichi Island.
World War, 1939-1945
Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
Biography.
World War, 1939-1945
Japan
Chichi Island.
Chichi Island (Japan)
History, Military
20th century.