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Month: March 2011

JAMES BRADLEY’S BOOK “FLYBOYS: A True Story of Courage”

JAMES BRADLEY’S BOOK “FLYBOYS: A True Story of Courage”

I’ve been reading Flyboys: a True Story of Courage by James Bradley about the pilots of World War II and the war in the Pacific. Bradley previously wrote Flags of Our Fathers about the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima. He starts out with the history of Japan. He notes that for two hundred years Japan was a closed book to the rest of the world by national law. A Japanese could not leave Japan and no outsider…

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