03-31-2004, 08:53 AM
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| Excellent Book. Flyboys by James Bradley 2003 also the author of Flags Of Our Fathers. I just finished this book less than a week after purchasing it. It tells of the air war in the pacific, and more specifically the pilots who were shot down over Chichi Jima. Phenominal read. It will leave you hating the Japanese brass for their warcrimes against aour boys and others. At the same time it shows the havoc wreaked by our U.S. bombers on civy's in Tokyo etc. Just an excellent book all around.
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03-31-2004, 09:00 AM
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| sounds good, i just finished on last night "code name bright light" by George J. Veith its a story of he behind the sceans resuce attempt of pows in vietnam. good book a lil dry in the first few chapters.
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04-01-2004, 12:47 AM
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| Senior Member | fire in the sky ---by eric bergerud the air war in the south pacific in really great. I like this author, he also wrote touched with fire --the land war in the south pacific, so we can now post in the book review section DL? |
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04-01-2004, 08:25 AM
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| Oops...well, I didn't know we couldn't post here. My fault.
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04-02-2004, 09:19 AM
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| Joe...it says it's only for admin and mods to post in. But I'm pretty sure we have a few other literate members here who might like to post somethiing.  I'll holler at Jesse or Chris and see what the rules are.
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04-02-2004, 09:21 AM
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| In fact I would venture to say that literacy probably runs fluently throughout the boards....
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04-02-2004, 03:08 PM
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| You should read "Pegasus Bridge" by Steven Ambrose. Its about the guys who glidered into France pre D-day. Also my current read is " The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors : The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour" -- by James D. Hornfischer. Good story so far. |
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04-03-2004, 01:03 AM
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| Senior Member | this is also a great read ahem, some problems but good http://www.historyofmilitary.com/Pha...557509115.html |
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04-06-2004, 01:05 AM
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| Senior Member | I sort of read lots of books about ww2, this is a great book pearl harbor and the war in the south pacific, its one of those living room table books, oversized, but its great, consultant editor bernard c nalty, technical advisor russ pritchhard, it is the most comprehensive book on ww2 tactics, strategic and tactical,, russ pritchard is one of the best comprehensive writers of military hardware in ww2, its outstanding, if you read a lot about ww2 technical equipment and weaponry, russ pritchard is about as good as it gets |
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