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James Bradley

USA · Pacific War — narrative history

About

Son of a Navy corpsman long identified as one of the Iwo Jima flag-raisers; a 2016 Marine Corps review concluded his father was not in the famous photograph. Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys are his Pacific histories.

Books in Database (2)

Flags of Our Fathers cover
Flags of Our Fathers 2000 · 376 pages

The six men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima, and the propaganda machine that consumed them.

Popular History
Flyboys cover
Flyboys 2003 · 398 pages

The true story of American airmen shot down over Chichi Jima and the atrocities they suffered.

Popular History

Events Covered

1945 Battle of Iwo Jima