World War II Remembered
ISBN: 9780979997006 | 0979997003
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Univ Pr of New England
Pub. Date: 2/8/2012
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Fifty-eight residents of the Kendal at Hanover (NH) retirement community have put together this remarkable collection of World War II memoirs. The 360-page paperback, 6" x 9", has over 70 photographs of the authors with their planes, tanks, or guns. Included are stateside service, home front, and refugee accounts, as well as four pages of maps and a WW II Timeline.
An exceptional human document of proud men and women who know what it meant to serve
An exceptional human document of proud men and women who know what it meant to serve
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| World War II Timeline | p. xiii |
| The European Theater | |
| European Theater Maps | p. 3 |
| The Cage | p. 5 |
| The Wrong Town | p. 11 |
| On Death, Hunting, and Killing | p. 14 |
| Coming in Low under the Clouds | p. 22 |
| Meeting the Enemy | p. 29 |
| Limited Service | p. 33 | ... MORE
| Three Unlikely Wounds | p. 38 |
| Captured in The Bulge | p. 52 |
| Coffee and Doughnuts, Anyone? | p. 57 |
| Shot Down over The Bulge | p. 64 |
| A Quartermaster on D-Day | p. 73 |
| The Bitter End | p. 78 |
| The Pacific Theater and Far East | |
| Pacific Theater Map | p. 87 |
| Over the Hump | p. 89 |
| My Accident-Prone Navy | p. 94 |
| Rescued by Ingrid Bergman | p. 100 |
| Tiger, Tiger | p. 103 |
| Ten Days in August | p. 106 |
| Journey to Tokyo Bay | p. 112 |
| Prisoner | p. 121 |
| Problem of the Bamboo Poles | p. 126 |
| From Nashville to Nagasaki | p. 130 |
| An Avenger Pilot | p. 136 |
| Guinea Pigs in New Guinea | p. 143 |
| Stateside Service | |
| The Flight of the WASP | p. 149 |
| Earning my Crampons | p. 160 |
| Whose War Is This? | p. 165 |
| The Birth of the United Nations | p. 174 |
| Secret Weapon? | p. 181 |
| Encrypted Messages | p. 186 |
| A Quaker's War | p. 191 |
| Matters of Destiny | p. 195 |
| Our Floating Runway | p. 199 |
| A Conscientious Objector's Tale | p. 204 |
| Security: Navy Style | p. 211 |
| Wartime in Europe and South America | |
| The Early War | p. 217 |
| Death of the Graf Spee | p. 224 |
| England Under Siege | p. 228 |
| A Child in Norway Under the Nazis | p. 232 |
| Invasion and Escape | p. 237 |
| Flight from Bulgaria | p. 252 |
| Home Front | |
| Domestic Details | p. 259 |
| A Fortuitous Encounter | p. 266 |
| They Also Serve | p. 269 |
| The Defense of America | p. 273 |
| Transitions | p. 278 |
| "Loose Lips," Marcia Khatri | p. 283 |
| Parallel Realities | p. 287 |
| Marriage in Wartime | p. 292 |
| Looking Through Barbed Wire | p. 297 |
| A Sad Lesson Learned | p. 302 |
| Interning the Japanese | p. 306 |
| The War Comes to Vermont | p. 310 |
| Food Was My Weapon | p. 315 |
| The Hand of Destiny | p. 318 |
| Post-War Service | |
| From KP to Blair House | p. 327 |
| Bouncing Along with Zhukov | p. 333 |
| Epilogue | |
| Hawks | p. 341 |
| List of Contributors | p. 345 |
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