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We found 5 Reddit comments about Flyboys: A True Story of Courage. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.

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5 Reddit comments about Flyboys: A True Story of Courage:

u/Iforgotmypassword23 · 9 pointsr/Warthunder

Read Flyboys. Lots of testimonies, pictures, and evidence from both sides. The US had its fair share of atrocities during the war, but nobody is saying that both sides committing wrongs makes it right. I mean, at the ground zero of one of the nuclear bomb blasts was a PoW camp for captured soldiers.

TL;DR: It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we shall grow too fond of it. - R. E. Lee

u/charlesmarker · 7 pointsr/todayilearned

Whereas Flyboys is also a book about WWII pilots in the pacific theater and the horrible things that happened when they got shot down.

u/Threkin · 2 pointsr/history

I'm in the middle of reading 'Flyboys', a great book but terrible story. Cannibalism.

u/Sniper_Brosef · 1 pointr/todayilearned

I will give you the russians. I often don't think of them as allied but they were. They were fucking pieces of shit... They hated the Japanese for the Russo-Japanese War. Doesn't excuse what they did just shows their mindset. One of the things I loved about the book Flyboys is that it was really impartial. James Bradley gave a wonderfully unbiased look into both sides of the war... I'd suggest you read it if you haven't already...

Anyway, this:

> If killing japanese, mutilating them, decapitating them and sending the skulls to loved ones back home isn't savage

Was way worse on the Japanese side...

and this:

> BECAUSE WE DIDN'T TAKE POWS. If you want to be retarded, the death rate for Japanese POWs were nearly 100%.

Is hyperbole at best and a flat out lie otherwise.

You seem passionate about this though. Read this book... Seriously, it's really great!