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Sorties Into Hell: The Hidden War on Chichi Jima Hardback - 2003

by Chester G. Hearn; Chester Hearn

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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 had been captured, executed, and eaten by certain senior Japanese officers. 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.

Rixey's suspicion of a cover-up was later substantiated by a group of Americans returning from Japan who had lived on Chichi Jima for generations. It would take five months of gathering testimony to uncover all the details. Thirty war criminals were eventually tried at Guam in 1947, five of whom met their fate on the gallows.

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  • Title Sorties Into Hell: The Hidden War on Chichi Jima
  • Author Chester G. Hearn; Chester Hearn
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Praeger, Bx-272
  • Publication date 2003-08-30
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780275980818 / 0275980812
  • Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.68 x 6.18 x 0.9 in (24.59 x 15.70 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and, World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities - Japan -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003045984
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.540

About the author

CHESTER HEARN is the author of numerous books including The American Soldier in World War II.
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