Author Topic: Flyboys, written by James Bradley (Read 204 times)

Mister Fork · « **on:** April 02, 2006, 10:51:04 PM »

Has anyone read this amazing book about the US pilots from WWII?

It has an amazing shocking secret that was kept quiet by the Allies for over 60 years. Goes into details about the pilots that were lost and then captured on Japanese occupied islands during the war.

Amazing read. Even has George seniors account when he was shot down over ChiChi Jima - that was an another great story.

I won't tell you what the secret is, but I am absolutely horrified by it. As a former soldier, and Gulf War vet, I'm glad our allied forces had common decency and strict etiquette with sensible democratic philosophies behind us.

Some of the stories give me the chills.

Anyone else read this book?

ISBN: 0-316-10728-X

Eagler · « **Reply #1 on:** April 02, 2006, 11:07:33 PM »

yes, many of us have - many threads about it already..

Bradley's agenda seemed to overshadow the canabalism of the japanese

seemed to me he was trying to justify it comparing America's treatment to the Indians and her conquest of the West to the Japs mindset & thier treatment of it's POWs a hundred years later ...

Urchin · « **Reply #2 on:** April 02, 2006, 11:20:06 PM »

I am pretty sure we didn't EAT the indians we captured...

Eagler · « **Reply #3 on:** April 02, 2006, 11:26:30 PM »

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Originally posted by Urchin
I am pretty sure we didn't EAT the indians we captured...

no we just massacre them ..

according to the book we collected their ears, made hats and clothing from their skin..

did you read the book?

Toad · « **Reply #4 on:** April 02, 2006, 11:27:24 PM »

I read it. I think Bradley went overboard on the intro.

Urchin · « **Reply #5 on:** April 02, 2006, 11:30:50 PM »

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Originally posted by Eagler
no we just massacre them ..

according to the book we collected their ears, made hats and clothing from their skin..

did you read the book?

I think I did, but I read a lot of stuff. I knew about the ear collection, did not know about the hat and clothes from indian skin. That is some pretty sick stuff, did it really happen?

Toad · « **Reply #6 on:** April 02, 2006, 11:32:38 PM »

Probably.

Angus · « **Reply #7 on:** April 03, 2006, 03:23:43 AM »

Go to the Nazis as well. They made Cigarette cases from human skin.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #8 on:** April 03, 2006, 04:59:47 AM »

That was the last book I read. Took me awhile to get through the first 200 pages but the payoff is at the end. I did think Bradley had an agenda at first, that's the way I read it too, but the end really balances it out, at least to me. I did research on the American soldiers' behavior in the Philippines at the turn of the century and that is pretty much accurate too. Good read though.