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World War II Remembered

by: Kendal at Hanover Residents Association; Gardner, Clinton C.; Barlow, Jane Atwood (CON); Christie, Robert W. (CON)

World War II Remembered

by: Kendal at Hanover Residents Association; Gardner, Clinton C.; Barlow, Jane Atwood (CON); Christie, Robert W. (CON)

ISBN 13:
9780979997006
ISBN 10:
0979997003
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 02/08/2012
Publisher: Wind Ridge Pub Partnership Book

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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.

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
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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World War II Remembered

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