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Voices of My Comrades - America's Reserve Officers Remember World War II (Hardcover)
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Voices of My Comrades - America's Reserve Officers Remember World War II (Hardcover)
Series: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
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Over 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 fiancee,
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.
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