Summary of James Bradley's Flyboys

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#1 I had developed a professional relationship with Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking, after the publication of my first book, Flags of Our Fathers. In early February 2001, she suggested I contact a man named Bill Doran in Iowa. He had some interesting information.

#2 The transcript contained the full proceedings of a trial establishing the fates of eight American airmen who were downed in the vicinity of Iwo Jima during World War II. The airmen were charged with destroying Chichi Jima’s communications stations, and they were the first to engage in combat aviation in large numbers.

#3 The American Flyboys, who fought in the Pacific in 1945, were part of an air war that dwarfed the land war below. The endgame in the northern Pacific was the incineration of Japan, and this required two layers of bombers in the sky.

#4 The eight Flyboys’ brothers and sisters, girlfriends, and aviator buddies gave me photos, letters, and medals. I tracked down the families and friends of the Flyboys who could only tell me so much.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669377115

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Insights on James Bradley's Flyboys

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had developed a professional relationship with Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking, after the publication of my first book, Flags of Our Fathers. In early February 2001, she suggested I contact a man named Bill Doran in Iowa. He had some interesting information.

#2

The transcript contained the full proceedings of a trial establishing the fates of eight American airmen who were downed in the vicinity of Iwo Jima during World War II. The airmen were charged with destroying Chichi Jima’s communications stations, and they were the first to engage in combat aviation in large numbers.

#3

The American Flyboys, who fought in the Pacific in 1945, were part of an air war that dwarfed the land war below. The endgame in the northern Pacific was the incineration of Japan, and this required two layers of bombers in the sky.

#4

The eight Flyboys’ brothers and sisters, girlfriends, and aviator buddies gave me photos, letters, and medals. I tracked down the families and friends of the Flyboys who could only tell me so much.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

In the nineteenth century, the United States transformed from a collection of thirteen tiny colonies to a continental giant stretching from sea to shining sea. America accomplished this with a government policy of ethnic cleansing.

#2

The American government conducted a lot of massacres and deportations of Native Americans, which led to the ethnically cleansing of the West of its Indians.

#3

The Americans of the 19th century were very interested in the Pacific Ocean, and its potential oil deposits. The significance of the Pacific meant first and foremost oil, which was vital to the American economy.

#4

The Japanese were not some New Guinea backwater, but arguably the most civilized, most urbanized, and highly organized country in the world. They had a direct connect to the heavens. The Americans might refer to their land as blessed by God, but the Japanese were living in the land of the gods.

#5

The Japanese were extremely curious about the outside world, and when Portuguese and Spanish missionaries first landed in Japan in 1543, they were welcomed and their conversion efforts were tolerated. But Ieyasu Tokugawa noticed something was different about the barbarian religion from the West.

#6

During the Edo period in Japan, the country was completely isolationist, and did