Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
Hardcover edition | |
| Author | James Bradley |
|---|---|
| Subject | World War II |
| Publisher | Little, Brown |
Publication date | 2003 |
| ISBN | 978-0-316-10584-2 |
| 940.54/05/09528 21 | |
| LC Class | D804.J3 B73 2003 |
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage is a 2003 nonfiction book by writer James Bradley, and was a national bestseller in the US. The book details a World War II incident of the execution and cannibalism of five of eight American POWs on the Pacific island of Chichi-jima, one of the Ogasawara Islands (Bonin Islands). This event is now known as the Chichijima incident.