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Flyboys is a story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor. Flyboys is a story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor. Flyboys reveals for the first time ever the extraordinary story of those men. In the fall of 1950 we had moved from our Greenwich walk-up into a charming old two-story Dutch Colonial house in Stamford, Connecticut. It will make you proud and it will break your heart. This is true, but the difficulty of the process simply reflects both the higher stakes involved (human lives at immediate risk on both sides) and the greater need for a consistent and transparent rule set that can be applied both judiciously and with a tangible sense of fairness. Flyboys : A True Story of Courage describes in vivid and unforgettable terms the fate of a handful of U.S. Navy and Marine aviators shot down and taken prisoner on Chichi Jima, an important wireless station for the Japanese navy. One of those nine was miraculously rescued by a U.S. Navy submarine. Flyboys: A True Story of Courage FLYBOYS is a tale of courage and daring, of war and death, of men and hope. Inspire a love of reading with Prime Book Box for Kids Discover delightful children's books with Prime Book Box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1, 2, or 3 months … Read an excerpt of James Bradley’s “Flyboys” to learn about a tale of courage and daring, of war and of death, of men and of hope that will make you proud, and break your heart. This book details a World War II incident of the execution and cannibalism of five of eight American P.O.W.s on the Pacific island of Chichi-jima, one of the Ogasawara Islands (Bonin Islands). Flyboys : A True Story of Courage Flyboys reveals for the first time ever the extraordinary story of those men. My final race for that year, the Sam Collier Memorial Grand Prix at Sebring, Florida, on Decem-ber 31, was a hectic affair. Flyboys: A True Story of Courage is a nonfiction book by writer James Bradley, and a national bestseller in the U.S. Now, in Flyboys, Bradley returns to World War II and an extraordinary-and totally unknown-true story of courage.Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down.