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	Chapter Excerpt: Flyboys by James Bradley
		Chichi Jima is part of an island chain due south of Tokyo the Japanese call the Ogasawara Islands.
		Most of the Chichi Jima Flyboys fought and died during the worst killing month in the history of all warfare?a thirty-day period in February and March of 1945 when the dying in WWII reached its climax.
		Iwo Jima was coveted for its airstrips, Chichi Jima for its communications stations.
	www.twbookmark.com /books/82/0316105848/chapter_excerpt17381.html (1960 words)

	Chichi-jima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chichi Jima was also the subject of a book by James Bradley entitled Flyboys, a factual account of the lives of a group of World War II fighter pilots including George H. Bush the 41st presdient of the US.
		Japanese troops and resources from Chichi Jima were used in reinforcing the strategic point of Iwo Jima before the battle of Iwo Jima.
		The island also served as a major point for Japanese radio communication and surveillance operations in the Pacific, with two radio stations atop its two mountains being the primary goal of multiple bombing attempts by the US Navy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chichi-jima (287 words)

	Chichi Navy Brochure
		Chichi Jima is part of the chain of islands known as the Bonins and lies at 27 degrees North, 142 degrees East, approximately 500 miles South of Japan and 800 miles North of Guam.
		Chichi Jima lies directly in the path of the "typhoon belt" and during the months of July through December, is under continuing threat from typhoons.
		Chichi Jima is in an area that is almost under constant threat from typhoons during the months from July to December.
	members.tripod.com /%7EJohn_Wick/chichi_navy_brochure.html (4359 words)

	How much did Japan know? thebulletin.org
		Chichi Jima, a small base, might evade such a calamity and be a safe harbor for the surviving submarines to reload, planners thought.
		It is true that Chichi Jima, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa were under U.S. occupation, that the bombs stored on the mainland lacked their plutonium and/ or uranium cores, and that the nuclear-armed ships were a legal inch away from Japanese soil.
		There were nuclear weapons on Chichi Jima and Iwo Jima, an enormous and varied nuclear arsenal on Okinawa, nuclear bombs (sans their fissile cores) stored on the mainland at Misawa and Itazuki airbases (and possibly at Atsugi, Iwakuni, Johnson, and Komaki airbases as well), and nuclear-armed U.S. Navy ships stationed in Sasebo and Yokosuka.
	www.thebulletin.org /article.php?art_ofn=jf00norris (3548 words)

	The Seattle Times: Travel: Dolphin dances, WWII relics in blissful, remote Japanese islands
		Chichi Jima and Haha Jima — "father island" and "mother island" in Japanese — lie roughly 120 miles north of Iwo Jima.
		Chichi Jima, about 120 miles north of Iwo Jima, is peppered with ruins of Japanese bunkers, armament and planes.
		CHICHI JIMA, Japan — As I slid into the ocean west of Chichi Jima, I wasn't thinking about the island's role in World War II.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/travel/2002670726_chichi11.html (1731 words)

	Far Outliers
		Chichi Jima was first settled from Honolulu in 1830 by two New Englanders -- Aldin B. Chapin and Nathaniel Savory -- a Genoese [Matteo Mazarro], and 25 Hawaiians [more accurately, Pacific Islanders mostly unnamed on the ship manifest], who made a living raising provisions for sale to passing whalers.
		This is the story of the investigation, the cover-up, and the last hours of those Americans who disappeared into war's wilderness and whose remains were distributed to the cooking galleys of Chichi Jima.
		There also appears to have been a long-running cover-up involving U.S. nuclear weapons on Chichi Jima and Iwo Jima during the 1950s and 1960s.
	faroutliers.blogspot.com /2004/01/bonin-islanders-ethnogenesis-and.html (1514 words)

	Iwo Jima: February 19 - March 12, 1945
		Beginning at 1815, a single Hellcat or Avenger would be launched to "heckle" the enemy on Chichi Jima, slowing their efforts to repair the airfield damage caused by the dusk strike.
		Strikes against Chichi Jima were repeated nearly every day, targeting the Susaki airfield, a seaplane base in Futami, and shipping as it was found.
		On March 4, the first B-29 made an emergency landing on Iwo Jima's Airfield Number 1, and by March 6, the Marines on Iwo Jima had progressed far enough that Army fighters could begin operating from that island's airfields, relieving the Big E of her Iwo CAP duties.
	www.cv6.org /1945/iwo/iwo_2.htm (2080 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		ZAHN (voice-over): Floating in a lift raft similar to this one off the coast of Chichi Jima, George Bush was trying to stay out of enemy hands and wondering what had become of his two crewmembers.
		When best-selling author James Bradley began to investigate the doomed raids on the Japanese island of Chichi Jima, what he found was an extraordinary story of unparalleled brutality, courage and one miraculous rescue.
		ZAHN: Chichi Jima is a flyspeck in the Pacific, about twice the size of Central Park.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0310/19/cp.00.html (5338 words)

	BONIN ISLANDS - Online Information article about BONIN ISLANDS
		They were also called Bonin Jima (corrupted by foreigners into Bonin) because of their being without (bu) inhabitants (nin).
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BLA_BOS/BONIN_ISLANDS.html (1024 words)

	Dragon Lady - 42nd Bomber Squadron - 11th Bomb Group - 7th Air Force
		Tom P. James, formerly of Wichita Falls, Texas, and his crew of the Seventh AAF Liberator bomber, "Dragon Lady," were facing a crisis on a recent bombing mission against Chichi Jima.
		Since arriving in the Central Pacific last June, Sergeant James engineer-tail gunner, has flown 29 missions against enemy strongholds at Iwo Jima, Chichi Jima, Haha Jima, Yap, Marcus, Kita Iwo Jima, Pagan and Medinilla.
		On his 19th mission, Sergeant James made a 50 foot strafing mission against Haha Jima.
	home.carolina.rr.com /homejames/Dragon_Lady_News_Story.htm (370 words)

	NLE WWII BUSH
		For his performance in the bombing run on Chichi Jima, he received the Distinguished Flying Cross.
		Bush's plane, along with three other Avengers, was on an early morning mission to take out Japanese radio stations and a tower on the island of Chichi Jima, when Bush's aircraft was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire.
		Once in the water, Bush inflated his life raft and paddled furiously away from Chichi Jima.
	www.eisenhower.archives.gov /wwiibush.htm (350 words)

	"Flyboys" Tells a Story of Courageous Airmen in WW2' One who survived would become President George W. Bush.
		He went with Mister Bradley to Chichi Jima, and in an emotional speech before the Japanese islanders, George H.W. Bush paid tribute to his fellow flyboys.
		“It was a war crimes trial to affix guilt on Japanese officers for the beheading deaths of eight flyboys on the island of Chichi Jima.
		In September of 1944, George Bush was flying a bomber that was shot down off the coast of Chichi Jima.
	quickstart.clari.net /voa/art/bd/2004-11-12-voa3.html (956 words)

	The Books: Flyboys by James Bradley
		The others were captured by Japanese soldiers on Chichi Jima and held prisoner.
		When the war was over, the American government, along with the Japanese, covered up everything that had happened on Chichi Jima.
		The records of a top-secret military tribunal were sealed, the lives of the eight Flyboys were erased, and the parents, brothers, sisters, and sweethearts they left behind were left to wonder.
	www.twbookmark.com /books/82/0316105848 (395 words)

	JamesBradley.com - Press
		Even at that late stage of the war, Chichi Jima was defended by 25,000 Japanese armed to the teeth.
		This time he tackles not a famous battle on the order of Iwo Jima but the comparatively little-known mission over the Pacific island of Chichi Jima in 1944, during which nine American airmen sent to bomb Japanese communications posts were shot down.
		Even readers who think they know the story of Chichi Jima because one of the downed airmen—Navy Pilot George Herbert Walker Bush—went on to become president of the United States will be astounded by the amazing revelations Bradley has uncovered about the fate of the other lost “flyboys.”
	www.jamesbradley.com /press/hbc.htm (427 words)

	A Sub-Sailors Visit To Chichi Jima
		One of the most interesting and rewarding results of publishing my Chichi Jima page to the web has been the resulting contacts and friendships that I have established.
		This submarine experienced some sort of mechanical difficulty which resulted in the need to pull into the harbor at Chichi Jima for repairs.
		I am especially pleased that Chris Smith contacted me after finding my Chichi web site and that he and his father were willing to share these pictures with me and allow me to publish them on my webpage.
	john_wick.tripod.com /subvisittochichi.html (647 words)

	Flyboys
		Located near the more famous Iwo Jima, Chichi Jima was a main relay point for radio communications between the Japanese homeland and their vast war empire.
		Highly fortified, Chichi Jima could not be successfully invaded by sea, leaving tactical bombing as the only practical solution to the destruction of its radio facilities.
		Furthermore, due to its location, Chichi Jima also served to alert the Japanese when strategic bombing missions were passing overhead.
	www.fogg.cc /reviews/books/breview188.htm (445 words)

	JamesBradley.com - Press
		Bradley was the first to uncover the fate of the seven flyboys on the island called Chichi Jima; even their family members never knew what had happened.
		On the island of Chichi Jima those young men would face the ultimate test.
		"FLYBOYS is the true story of young American airmen who were shot down over Chichi Jima.
	www.jamesbradley.com /press/pub_com.htm (409 words)

	USS Anzio (CVE-57)
		Three days later, she launched a strike to the north on Chichi Jima in the Bonin Islands.
		Anzio departed the Iwo Jima area on 8 March and entered San Pedro Bay at Leyte on 12 March.
		When Anzio was relieved by Extractor (ARS-15), she resumed her ASW patrols and worked at that task through mid-February 1945, when she steamed to Iwo Jima.
	encycl.opentopia.com /term/USS_Anzio_(CVE-57) (1341 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		Shot down over the Pacific island of Chichi Jima and rescued by a submarine, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and three Air Medals.
		In 1945 he married Barbara Pierce and then matriculated at Yale, where he majored in economics, was captain of the baseball team, and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1948.
		During World War II he became the navy's youngest pilot.
	ap.grolier.com /article?assetid=0046985-0&templatename=/article/articl... (1234 words)

	U.S. Nuclear Weapons on Chichi Jima and Iwo Jima
		Japan was fully integrated into U.S. nuclear war plans, nuclear warheads were deployed on the three Japanese islands of Chichi Jima, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, components were stored on the Japanese mainland, and nuclear weapons were routinely present on U.S. ships and submarines calling at Japanese ports.
		The article, by three noted nuclear weapons analysts, is a follow up to their article in the November/December 1999 Bulletin about the history of the deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons in 27 countries and territories around the globe.
		The authors conclude that though the United States technically abided by Japan’s “non-nuclear” principles, the non-nuclear status of the country was fundamentally undermined.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB22 (1429 words)

	John LaPlant's Chichi Jima Bonin Islands Website
		In the photo montage above, is one of three Grumman HU 16 seaplanes which served Chichi Jima flying out of Guam in the Mariana Islands.
		Welcome to John LaPlant's Chichi Jima Bonin Islands website.
		This site is in tribute to the people of the Bonin Islands (now known as Ogasawara Islands); especially the descendants of Nathaniel Savory and the other original settlers beginning in the 1830's.
	john_laplant.tripod.com (507 words)

	POSSIBLE
		I was fortunate to be able to spend two years on Chichi Jima while serving as a Medical Officer at U.S. Naval Facility, Chichi Jima from 1964 to 1966.
		Please be assured that we are interested in hearing from ANYONE with an interest in the islands, whether it be current or prior residents of Chichi, U.S. military personnel, individuals who have immigrated from Chichi to the United States, or elsewhere.
		There you can check the current weather on Chichi, track the typhoons during typhoon season, see some pictures of modern Chichi, and read some of the history of the island and its interesting people.
	members.tripod.com /~John_Wick/index-3.html (581 words)

	Iwo from LiveJournal
		On the last night of our trip, we stopped at the Iwo Jima memorial This memorial is the largest bronze statue in the world and depicts one of the most famous photographs in history -- that of the six brave soldiers raising the American Flag at the top...
		i quoted the iwo jima memorial inscription for 01, sylvia plath for 12 chinese character translations (i'll be giving the korean pronunciation): 13: Jung - this word is kinda hard to translate into english.
		Eastwood is also shooting the same movie, again, this time from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers who defended the sands of Iwo Jima in 1945.
	www.ljseek.com /search/Iwo (734 words)

	USATODAY.com - Unknown 'flyboy' gets his eulogy
		One was rescued: 20-year-old George Bush, the future president who says he never knew the full story of what happened on Chichi Jima until Bradley pieced it together.
		Luke had the documentation, including a copy of the Navy's "determination of death" from 1946 that says, "On 5 August 1944, the survivor who is determined to be Hindenlang was bayoneted and beheaded by the enemy in the Kominato area on Chichi Jima."
		The book tells the previously untold story of nine American pilots shot down over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima in 1944.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2004-01-21-unknown-flyboy_x.htm (700 words)

	Gunny G's Marine Vignettes #19
		Chichi Jima, is located about 150 miles north of Iwo.
		Chichi Jima Retto, and HaHa Jima Retto, is hereby proclaimed
		marked the return of the American Flag to Chichi Jima climaxed a
	www.angelfire.com /ca4/gunnyg/vignettes19.html (9108 words)

	Gen Kanai weblog: Chichi Jima
		Commodore Matthew Perry and author Jack London spent time on Chichi Jima.
		Over the years, visitors to the Ogasawara Islands, known in the West as the Bonin Islands, have included the famous and infamous.
		In 1944, former President George H.W. Bush, then a 20-year-old Navy pilot, was shot down offshore and rescued by an American submarine.
	www.kanai.net /weblog/archives/000881.html (76 words)

	USS Oakland CL-95 Battle Action Report 1
		Northwest of BONIN ISLANDS and Bombardment of CHICHI JIMA in
		Task Unit 58.1.6 passed between the CHICHI JIMA group and the MUKO JIMA
		Bombardment of ChiChi Jima in Company with Task Unit
	www.rtcol.com /~oakland/action1.html (3377 words)

	Bonin Information Service - Links -
		Information obtained as a result of serving on Chichi Jima as Naval medical officer for two years as well as emails from others with a Chichi Jima connection.
	www.bonin-islands.com /links (86 words)

	[Misc] Bermuda--Washington family name ?
		His son Uncle Charlie Washington of Chichi Jima was alive age 87 in
		In 1843 a negro cabin boy (Surname Washington?) from Bermuda jumped ship on Chichi Jima Island in the Pacific Ocean.
	www.afrigeneas.com /forum-carib/index.cgi?noframes;read=497 (81 words)

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