" Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941: High on the bridge of the USS
West Virginia Sfc. Lee Ebner was looking forward to the end of his
watch and a relaxed Sunday morning breakfast. But the two
low-flying planes painted with rising sun insignia and bearing down
on the ship had other plans for him and his fellow seamen. Ten
hours later, at Clark Field in the Philippines, Pfc. Jack Reed felt
the brunt of another Japanese air attack and within weeks found
himself a part of the gruesome Bataan Death March that was to claim
the lives of hundred of his comrades. On another continent, four
years into the war, Capt. Benjamin Butler led his exhausted company
up a steep, fog-shrouded Italian mountain toward a well entrenched
German defensive position. The odds against their survival were
appalling, though worse was to come in the months ahead. Such were
the experiences of many young men-plucked from their local
communities all across America, trained for war, and hurled into
the strange reality of combat thousands of miles form home. In this
stunning collection of World War II oral histories, Arthur Kelly
recreates the experiences of twelve young men from Kentucky who
survived the seemingly unsurvivable, whether in combat or as
prisoners of war.
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