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Flyboys is the true story about eight American airmen who were shot down during World War II and held prisoners on a small island off the coast of Japan. The fate of these men was not known until the Japanese war crimes trials were held in 1946. The horrific results led to the hanging of high ranking officers and the imprisonment of many others. Information about the crimes was kept from the American public; the files were sealed and were not opened until the late 1980s.

The author wanted to let the story be known in honor of these airmen. He used the information from the trials in addition to interviews of the Japanese survivors who witnessed the action to tell us the fate of these men. Bradley researched the lives of each of them so we could best know and understand them. He also included a great deal of information about Jimmie Doolittle, who was the first to bomb Tokyo, General Curtis LeMay, who used the B-29 missions to devastate Tokyo, and Colonel Tibetts who dropped the 1st atomic bomb...[More]