Letters from the Pacific

Letters from the Pacific

Author: Russell Cartwright Stroup

Publisher: Creekside Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780826212887

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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.


Good Night Officially

Good Night Officially

Author: Yeoman James Orvill Raines

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-11

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 0429720238

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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.


WWII Letters from the Pacific

WWII Letters from the Pacific

Author: Linda McCormick

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-03-28

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9781985094826

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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.


Sensō

Sensō

Author: Frank Gibney

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9780765616432

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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.


Combat Officer

Combat Officer

Author: Charles Walker

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0307414787

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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


Letters to Memory

Letters to Memory

Author: Karen Tei Yamashita

Publisher: Coffee House Press

Published: 2017-09-05

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1566894980

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Praise for Karen Tei Yamashita: "It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing." —NPR "Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." —New York Times Book Review With delightful plays of voice and structure, this is literary fiction at an adventurous, experimental high point." —Kirkus "Magnificent. . . . Intriguing." —Library Journal "This powerful, deeply felt, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Scintillations is an excursion through the Japanese internment using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic specialties. Historians, anthropologists, classicists—their disciplines, and Yamashita's engagement with them, are a way for her explore various aspects of the internment and to expand its meaning beyond her family, and our borders, to ideas of debt, forgiveness, civil rights, Orientalism, and community. Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel, and Anime Wong, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award, the American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award.


The Battalion Artist

The Battalion Artist

Author: Janice Blake

Publisher:

Published: 2019-09

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9780817922245

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The Battalion Artist explores the three years, three months, and three days of Nat Bellantoni's life on the Pacific front in World War II. He had known since childhood that he wanted to be--that he in fact was--an artist. When he packed his seabag and took leave of his family and his sweetheart to go to war, he knew that the best way to manage the narrative of his life and to cope with the ups and downs of his feelings was to create images--visual records that spoke of what he felt, as well as what he saw. In this stunning book filled with authentic World War II images--many in full color--we see and feel the intensity of wartime life through the eyes of a talented young artist who was also a US Navy Seabee. Natale Bellantoni, a young art student from Boston, sailed across the Pacific in 1943-45 and returned home with a sea chest of art and photographs documenting his experiences in New Caledonia, New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and Okinawa. His subject matter was his daily life: endless weeks at sea, harbors and ships, men at work, airstrips, the local countryside, and the view of enemy planes overhead at night from his fox hole. Now collected in a lavishly illustrated volume, his watercolors, sketches, and photographs offer a window onto one of the most significant moments in American history. The Battalion Artist explores the World War II experiences of Nat Bellantoni, but it reflects the story of an entire generation.


Across the Blue Pacific

Across the Blue Pacific

Author: Louise Borden

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780618339228

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A woman reminisces about her neighbor's son who was the object of a letter writing campaign by some fourth-graders when he went away to war in 1943.


Letters from the Pacific

Letters from the Pacific

Author: LT Eleanor Melbourne, Army Nurse Corps

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-11-02

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 1483492664

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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."