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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: 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: 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: 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: Frank Gibney Publisher: M.E. Sharpe ISBN: 9780765616432 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 382
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A collection of letters written by a cross-section of Japanese citizens to one of Japan's leading newspapers, expressing their personal reminiscences and opinions of the Pacific war. This work provides the general reader and the specialist with insights on a subject deliberately swept under the rug, both by Japan's citizenry and its government.
Author: Philip J. Magnan Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595249361 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 370
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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: Charles Walker Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 0307414787 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 266
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TO HELL AND BACK For the U.S., Guadalcanal was a bloody seven-month struggle under brutal conditions against crack Japanese troops deeply entrenched and determined to fight to the death. For Charles Walker, this horrific jungle battle–one that claimed the lives of 1,600 Americans and more than 23,000 Japanese–was just the beginning. On the eve of battle, 2nd Lt. Walker was ordered back to the States for medical reasons. But there was a war to be won, and he had no intention of missing it. In this devastatingly powerful memoir, Walker captures the conflict in all its horror, chaos, and heroism: the hunger, the heat, the deafening explosions and stench of death, the constant fear broken by moments of sheer terror. This is the gripping tale of the brave young American men who fought with tremendous courage in appalling conditions, willing to sacrifice everything for their country. Look for these books about Americans who fought World War II: VISIONS FROM A FOXHOLE A Rifleman in Patton’s Ghost Corps by William A. Foley Jr. BEHIND HITLER’S LINES The True Story of the Only Soldier to Fight for Both America and the Soviet Union in World War II by Thomas H. Taylor NO BENDED KNEE The Battle for Guadalcanal by Gen. Merrill B. Twining, USMC (Ret.) ALL THE WAY TO BERLIN A Paratrooper at War in Europe by James Megellas
Author: Bill Adler Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312304317 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 278
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A collection of letters from the Allied soldiers who fought and won World War II reveals the horror, humor, and boredom of this great conflict.
Author: Minoru Masuda Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 0295800445 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 224
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This is the first collection of letters by a member of the legendary 442nd Combat Team, which served in Italy and France during World War II. Written to his wife by a medic serving with the segregated Japanese American unit, the letters describe a soldier's daily life. Minoru Masuda was born and raised in Seattle. In 1939 he earned a master's degree in pharmacology and married Hana Koriyama. Two years later the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor, and Min and Hana were imprisoned along with thousands of other Japanese Americans. When the Army recruited in the relocation camp, Masuda chose to serve in the 442nd. In April 1944 the unit was shipped overseas. They fought in Italy and in France, where they liberated Bruyeres and rescued a "lost battalion" that had been cut off by the Germans. After the German surrender on May 3, 1945, Masuda was among the last of the original volunteers to leave Europe; he arrived home on New Year's Eve 1945. Masuda's vivid and lively letters portray his surroundings, his daily activities, and the people he encountered. He describes Italian farmhouses, olive groves, and avenues of cypress trees; he writes of learning to play the ukulele with his "big, clumsy" fingers, and the nightly singing and bull sessions which continued throughout the war; he relates the plight of the Italians who scavenged the 442nd's garbage for food, and the mischief of French children who pelted the medics with snowballs. Excerpts from the 442nd daily medical log provide context for the letters, and Hana interposes brief recollections of her experiences. The letters are accompanied by snapshots, a drawing made in the field, and three maps drawn by Masuda.
Author: Mark Z. Danielewski Publisher: Pantheon ISBN: 0375714413 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 106
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Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Lièvre sent her son, Johnny Truant, a series of letters from The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute, a psychiatric facility in Ohio where she spent the final years of her life. Beautiful, heartfelt, and tragic, this correspondence reveals the powerful and deeply moving relationship between a brilliant though mentally ill mother and the precocious, gifted young son she never ceases to love. Originally contained within the monumental House of Leaves, this collection stands alone as a stunning portrait of mother and child. It is presented here along with a foreword by Walden D. Wyhrta and eleven previously unavailable letters.
Author: Russell Cartwright Stroup
Author: Russell Cartwright Stroup
Author: Yeoman James Orvill Raines
Author: Linda McCormick
Author: Frank Gibney
Author: Philip J. Magnan
Author: Charles Walker
Author: Bill Adler
Author: Minoru Masuda
Author: Margriet Ruurs
Author: Mark Z. Danielewski