Sorties into hell : the hidden war on Chichi Jima /

In October 1946, Colonel Presley Rixey arrived by destroyer at Chichi Jima to repatriate 22,000 Japanese who had been bypassed during the war in the Pacific. While waiting for a Marine battalion to arrive, the colonel met daily with a Japanese commission assigned to assist him. When asked what had h...

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Main Author: Hearn, Chester G.
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Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003
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505 0 |a Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Prelude to Iwo Jima; 2. War Comes to Chichi Jima; 3. The Question; 4. Return of the Natives; 5. The Entrapment of Major Horie; 6. The Search Begins; 7. The Flesh Eaters; 8. The Execution of Floyd Ewing Hall; 9. The Flyers from the Bunker Hill; 10. Semper Fi; 11. The Search for the Unknowns; 12. The Criminals of Chichi Jima; 13. Decision at Guam; Epilogue; Appendix A: Pilots Shot Down over Chichi Jima; Appendix B: Key Japanese Officers and Enlisted Men Recommended for Trial; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 
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