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Author: LT Eleanor Melbourne, Army Nurse Corps Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1483492664 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 106
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"We have been terrifically busy these past few days. I wish I could tell you all about it, but I can't; my job and what I'm doing here is the most important thing don't forget it. If my letters are full of social activities it's only because I can't talk about the other things, and I do wish I could, I still have some bad moments over these G.I's I take care of - I doubt if I'll ever get hardened to the army. I'd like it better if I could tell it all to you two, who are so close to me. I try to see if the army way, that is that men are expendable, if they fall by the wayside it's just one of those things. It all started over two guys I got in today. Boy I really thought they were goners. But tonight he was rational and talked to me. Well I'm glad he's going to make it. I could go on and say what I'm thinking, that is, he's going to make it to only fight and perhaps be killed. It's a tough war Mom and Dad, and I'm sure learning a life time of experiences."
Author: LT Eleanor Melbourne, Army Nurse Corps Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1483492664 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 106
Book Description
"We have been terrifically busy these past few days. I wish I could tell you all about it, but I can't; my job and what I'm doing here is the most important thing don't forget it. If my letters are full of social activities it's only because I can't talk about the other things, and I do wish I could, I still have some bad moments over these G.I's I take care of - I doubt if I'll ever get hardened to the army. I'd like it better if I could tell it all to you two, who are so close to me. I try to see if the army way, that is that men are expendable, if they fall by the wayside it's just one of those things. It all started over two guys I got in today. Boy I really thought they were goners. But tonight he was rational and talked to me. Well I'm glad he's going to make it. I could go on and say what I'm thinking, that is, he's going to make it to only fight and perhaps be killed. It's a tough war Mom and Dad, and I'm sure learning a life time of experiences."
Author: Linda McCormick Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781985094826 Category : Languages : en Pages : 142
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What a family heirloom a simple box of letters can be. In this case, an aunt and uncle had saved letters from their nephew and ended up giving them to his daughter when he died. Those letters were written during his service in WWII. We can only wonder if he opened up more to an aunt, than he would have to his own mother.
Author: Yeoman James Orvill Raines Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429720238 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 403
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My interest in USS Howorth originated during my thirty-three months of duty in the Pacific Fleet destroyer Hamner, named after Howorth's gunnery officer killed at Okinawa, Lieutenant Henry R. "Pete" Hamner. His legacy jncluded the Reader's Digest subscriptions his mother presented each year to the wardroom and crew. Later, as executive officer in the hydrofoil Plainview, exasperated by the endless stream of logs and records demanded by higher authorities, I peevishly tested the navy's record system and wrote away for information on Lieutenant Hamner and Howorth. I was surprised by the magnitude of the material documenting Howorth's Pacific War, ranging from hourly barometric readings and seawater injection temperatures to ammunition effectiveness reports.
Author: Russell Cartwright Stroup Publisher: Creekside Press ISBN: 9780826212887 Category : Chaplains, Military Languages : en Pages : 236
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"Edited, annotated, and introduced by Richard Cartwright Austin, Stroup's letters provide the most probing insight into a combat chaplain's role currently available."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Frank Gibney Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317459989 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 377
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This acclaimed work is an extraordinary collection of letters written by a wide cross-section of Japanese citizens to one of Japan's leading newspapers, expressing their personal reminiscences and opinions of the Pacific war. "SENSO" provides the general reader and the specialist with moving, disturbing, startling insights on a subject deliberately swept under the rug, both by Japan's citizenry and its government. It is an invaluable index of Japanese public opinion about the war.
Author: Philip J. Magnan Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595249361 Category : World War, 1939-1945 Languages : en Pages : 368
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Letters from the Pacific Front is the story of the extraordinary adventures of an ordinary marine and his brothers who wore their country's uniform during World War II. Bob Magnan walked point as a rifleman on Guadalcanal, survived air attacks on New Guinea, served as sniper on New Britain and directed artillery fire on Okinawa. With thousands of others he prepared for the ultimate invasion of the Japanese homeland that was averted only by unconditional surrender. Along the way Bob's sense of duty grew ever stronger, but his youthful idealism was tempered with healthy skepticism. He basked in the hero's welcome given by Australia to the 1st Marine Division, and he suffered the near-fatal effects of tropical diseases. He mourned the loss of a brother killed-in-action. See the war through his eyes and as he interpreted it through journals and in dozens of letters he mailed home.
Author: George Blanchard Lucas Publisher: US Naval Institute Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 336
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Between May 1943 and April 1945 George Lucas, an ensign on board a service tug in the Pacific, wrote more than three hundred letters home to his beloved wife, Betty. Tucked safely away and discovered only after her death, those letters - the best of which are presented here - provide a fascinating record of World War II behind the lines and an intimate look at a young naval officer's professional and emotional development. A keen observer of his surroundings, Lucas describes life at sea, his shipmates, and exotic island cultures as well as the horrors of war, made particularly apparent to him during a clean-up assignment after the three-day pitched battle for Tarawa. Always informative, often lyrical, these letters stand as a tribute to all those who lived through the war, regardless of their rank or service.
Author: LT Eleanor Melbourne, Army Nurse Corps
Author: LT Eleanor Melbourne, Army Nurse Corps
Author: Linda McCormick
Author: Yeoman James Orvill Raines
Author: Russell Cartwright Stroup
Author: Frank Gibney
Author: Harvey Rice
Author: Kermit G. Stewart
Author: Sally Hitchcock Pullman
Author: Philip J. Magnan
Author: George Blanchard Lucas