By: James Bradley
Rate: very good
During World War II, there were 9 American Flyboys, or young pilots that fought in the war, flew over the Japanese island of Chichi Jima and were shot down and held prisoner, disappearing from the rest of the world. One of them was miraculously rescued. After the war, the rest of the boys’ fates were covered up, and their families were in despair. Bradley, for the first time, reveals what happened to the brave Flyboys…
It started when Japan became non-isolated from the rest of the world. It attacked China and took over most of their land, killing many innocent Chinese men and raping Chinese women. The horrors of Japan were known, and Flyboys all over America worked to fight them. The nine Flyboys (Dick Woellhof, Floyd Hall, Marve Mershon, Jimmy Dye, Grady York, Warren Earl Vaughn, Glenn Frazier and an unknown man) were supposed to fly over Chichi Jima and bomb Japanese communication towers. George H. W. Bush, later to become President of the U.S.A, was a Flyboy who flew over Chichi Jima! Luckily, he was not one of the nine ones. 🙂 The Japanese were cruel to them when they lived and even more horrifying when they died. They would tie them up and bayonet them, or they would force them to dig their own grave and behead them when they were kneeling down at the pit. Yet after they died, the Japanese Spirit Warriors did what terrified me the most: they ate the Flyboys. The Spirit Warriors would take their livers and eat it delightedly. They were horrifying cannibals. All eight of the Flyboys eventually were killed in many different cruel ways, and Floyd Hall was the last of them alive. It was horrible, just plain horrible. The families broke down when they knew their sons were dead, but none of them knew exactly how. I think James Bradley did a great job revealing the fates of the eight poor Flyboys that bravely died on Chichi Jima.
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