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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
245 0 0 _aVoices of My Comrades :
_bAmerica's Reserve Officers Remember World War II /
_ced. by Carol Adele Kelly.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bFordham University Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©2008
300 _a1 online resource (548 p.) :
_b48 Black & White Illustrations
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aWorld War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tForeword --
_tPreface --
_tWorld War II Chronology --
_tPrologue: Prewar Activity --
_tChapter 1: December 1941 --
_tChapter 2: January 1942 --
_tChapter 3 February 1942 --
_tChapter 4: March 1942 --
_tChapter 5: April 1942 --
_tChapter 6: May 1942 --
_tChapter 7: June 1942 --
_tChapter 8: July 1942 --
_tChapter 9: August 1942 --
_tChapter 10: September 1942 --
_tChapter 11: October 1942 --
_tChapter 12: November 1942 --
_tChapter 13: December 1942 --
_tChapter 14: January 1943 --
_tChapter 15: February 1943 --
_tChapter 16: March 1943 --
_tChapter 17: April 1943 --
_tChapter 18: May 1943 --
_tChapter 19: June 1943 --
_tChapter 20: July 1943 --
_tChapter 21: August 1943 --
_tChapter 22: September 1943 --
_tChapter 23: October 1943 --
_tChapter 24: November 1943 --
_tChapter 25: December 1943 --
_tChapter 26: January 1944 --
_tChapter 27 February 1944 --
_tChapter 28: March 1944 --
_tChapter 29: April 1944 --
_tChapter 30: May 1944 --
_tChapter 31: June 1944 --
_tChapter 32: July 1944 --
_tChapter 33: August 1944 --
_tChapter 34. September 1944 --
_tChapter 35: October 1944 --
_tChapter 36: November 1944 --
_tChapter 37. December 1944 --
_tChapter 38: January 1945 --
_tChapter 39: February 1945 --
_tChapter 40: March 1945 --
_tChapter 41: April 1945 --
_tChapter 42: May 1945 --
_tChapter 43: June 1945 --
_tChapter 44: July 1945 --
_tChapter 45: August 1945 --
_tChapter 46: Countdown to V-J Day, 2 September 1945 --
_tChapter 47: September 1945 and Beyond --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tPhoto Credit --
_tSelected Bibliography --
_tAbout the Editor --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aOver the course of five years, the Reserve Officers Association of the United States—the nation’s oldest such professional military organization—invited its members to write about their experiences in World War II. The response was an impressive outpouring of memories, now compiled here in an extraordinary record of courage, sacrifice, and commitment.Stories from 240 veterans—representing all theaters, ranks, and services—track the years of World War II month by month.From the young ensign’s letter to his fiancée, describing his escape from the USS Cassin minutes before it explodes at Pearl Harbor, to the battle-seasoned colonel’s account of his flyover at the peace-treaty signing aboard the USS Missouri, the stories give a human face to the moments of war, written by men and women who intimately lived those history-making days, on bombing missions and invasion duty, on front lines and the home front.Readers will meet a survivor of the USS Reuben James, sunk by a German U-boat before December 7, 1941, and eight D-Day invaders of Normandy, including Lieutenant Colonel J. Strom Thurmond, paratrooper. They will also meet a bodyguard to General Douglas MacArthur and the nurses who healed the fallen in huts on Bataan, the hospital ship Shamrock in the Mediterranean, and field hospitals in France.Here, too, are personal accounts by Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) and the battlehardened engineers of the Seabees in the Pacific. Other veterans tell of surviving the sinking of the troopship Leopoldville, when 750 Americans died in the English Channel on Christmas Eve, 1944; the horrific discovery of the Nazi extermination camps; and the tragic bombings near war’s end of unmarked Japanese ships transporting U.S. POWs from the Philippines.Featuring photographs, a chronology, and historical introductions, this book—thanks to these stories by ordinary soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and nurses—is destined to become an enduring testimony to the American experience in World War II.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military.
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700 1 _aInouye, Daniel K.
_eautore
700 1 _aKelly, Carol Adele
_ecuratore
700 1 _aStevens, Ted
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823295678
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823295678
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