
FLYBOYS
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Little Brown, New York, 2003, 1st Ed., 12th pr. ISBN 0-316-10584-8. Hard cover, 398 pages including Acknowledgments, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Very good plus; tight binding with headbands; spine ends bumped. Dust jacket with price intact has a bit of edge and cover wear, a few rubs. Interior clean and unmarked; illustrated end papers; black & white photo plate sections; maps. ‘Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers – Navy and Marine airmen sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there – were shot down. One of those nine was miraculously rescued by a U.S. Navy submarine. The others were captured by Japanese soldiers on Chichi Jima and held prisoner. Then they disappeared.’ (from front flap)