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Name: Flyboys
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Author: James Bradley

Flyboys chronicles the harrowing experiences of nine United States Army Air Forces pilots who were shot down in the Pacific theater of World War II. Their crews were captured by Japanese forces, and for almost sixty years the details of their imprisonment and survival remained a secret. This history brings to light the Allied and Japanese governments’ efforts to conceal the pilots’ suffering, and ultimately exposes the truth about what happened to each of them after the war.

First publish date: 2003

Genre: History/Military History

Authors: James Bradley

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