If you want to learn just what one of our other enemies was like before and during WW II, pick up a copy of "Flyboys," by James Bradley, Little, Brown and Co., � 2003.

Bradley, by the way, is the son of one of the men who raised the flag on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima.

If you have a weak stomach, you'd better not read this one.

L.W.


"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." (William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830s.)