Sorties Into Hell: The Hidden War on Chichi Jima

by Chester G. Hearn

Book Overview

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 happened to American prisoners on the island, the Japanese hatched a story to hide the atrocities that they had committed. In truth, the downed flyers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275980812
• ISBN13: 9780275980818
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.7"