A True Story of Courage
by James Bradley
appears in Military, History, and Nonfiction.
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyersNavy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers therewere 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. When the war was over...
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