The book title, by the way, is Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, by
James Bradley. After initially being put off by the moral equivalence
(oh sure, the Japanese murdered, cooked, and ate bits of seven
American fliers off Chichi Jima, but hey! Americans behaved badly at
the Battle of Wounded Knee!), I've decided it's worth the read.

There were Japanese soldiers at Wounded Knee ?

No, there were American soldiers.

The Japanese treated their enemies badly, but hey! so did the
Americans. (Mind you, I have not yet read the book. The moral
equivalance of Chichi Jima and Wounded Knee was pointed out by a
reviewer.)

You will find this sort of equivalance in most people edcuated after
say 1980. It was famously express by a high-school student who wrote
that the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, so the
Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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