[presidio9]

The US navy began strikes against the island of Iwo Jima on June 15th, 1944. The first American casualty was suffered two days later when a member of an underwater demolition team was struck and killed by small arms resistance. The campaign against Chichi was undertaken only because the Japanese were using it to reinforce Iwo Jima. The island itself had no stategic value, and the Americans never bothered to take it until the war was over.

And Bradley never wrote a novle that I am aware of.

[wtc911]

Want to double down? Go ahead...here's the quote that you first posted.....

"As U.S. Marines in 1945 invaded Iwo Jima some 150 miles away, U.S. warplanes bombed the small communications outpost on Chichi Jima.....Nine crewmen survived after being shot down in the raid. One was picked up by the American submarine USS Finback. His name was Lieutenant George H. W. Bush, who later became the forty-first President of the United States."

As I and others pointed out (with supporting USN links), the raid during which Bush was shot down happened on September 2, 1944 ----- five months before the invasion of Iwo Jima.

If you want to get prissy about facts you should make sure that they are on your side.