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Author | : James J. Fahey |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780618400805 |
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Fahey was a 24-year-old garbage-truck driver when he enlisted in the Navy on Oct. 3, 1942, and became a seaman first class on the USS Montpelier. During almost three years of battle in the Pacific Ocean, he defied Navy rules against keeping a diary by writing copious notes on loose sheets of paper that appeared to anyone watching to be ordinary let
Author | : James J. Fahey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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Author | : James J. Fahey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780295973043 |
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This new, illustrated edition of Pacific War Diary preserves, in abbreviated form, Fahey's vivid narrative. A selection of photographs, drawn from both Navy and Army sources, follows the course of events described by Fahey.
Author | : Mack Morriss |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2014-10-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813157366 |
Download South Pacific Diary, 1942-1943 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A unique chronicle of the war from the perspective of a sensitive twenty-four-year-old sergeant who wrote for the Army's in-house paper, Yank, the Army Weekly and a tale of the South Pacific that will not soon be forgotten. Correspondent Mack Morriss reluctantly left his diary in the Honolulu Yank office in July 1943. "Here is contained an account of the past eight and one-half months," he wrote in his last entry, "a period which I shall never forget." The next morning he was on a plane headed back to the South Pacific and the New Georgia battleground. Morriss was working out of the press camp at Spa, Belgium, in January 1945, when he learned that the diary he had kept in the South Pacific had arrived in a plain brown wrapper at the New York office. He was so happy "to know that this impossible thing had happened," he wrote to his wife, that he helped two friends "murder a quart of scotch." What was preserved and appears in print here for the first time is a unique chronicle of the war in the South Pacific from the perspective of a sensitive twenty-four-year-old sergeant. This is an intensely personal account, reporting the war from the ridge known as the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal, from the bars and dance halls of Auckland to a B-17 flying through the moonlit night to bomb Japanese installations on Bougainville. Morriss thought deeply and wrote movingly about everything connected with the war: the sordiness and heroism, the competence and ineptitude of leaders, the strange mixture of constant complaint and steady courage of ordinary GIs, friendships formed under combat stress, and, above all, what he perceived to be his own indecisiveness and weaknesses. Ronnie Day introduces Morriss's diary and illuminates the work with extensive notes based on private papers, government documents, travel in the Solomon Islands, and the recollections of men mentioned in the diary.
Author | : Samuel Hideo Yamashita |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2005-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824829773 |
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The fall of Singapore and the brilliant victories achieved since the start of the war mean we are protected, but I don’t know just how grateful I should be. —Takahashi Aiko, housewife, February 1942 This is my final departure from the home islands. I have paid my respects to those who have helped me. I have no regrets. —Itabashi Yasuo, navy kamikaze pilot, February 1944 We had rice gruel for lunch again. There was no tofu in it, but there were potatoes.... We went through with the closing ceremony and received our report cards. Everyone was there. From now on, I’ll persevere and not fail. —Manabe Ichiro, primary school student, July 1944 This collection of diaries gives readers a powerful, firsthand look at the effects of the Pacific War on eight ordinary Japanese. Immediate, vivid, and at times surprisingly frank, the diaries chronicle the last years of the war and its aftermath as experienced by a navy kamikaze pilot, an army straggler on Okinawa, an elderly Kyoto businessman, a Tokyo housewife, a young working woman in Tokyo, a teenage girl mobilized for war work, and two schoolchildren evacuated to the countryside. Samuel Yamashita’s introduction provides a helpful overview of the historiography on wartime Japan and offers valuable insights into the important, everyday issues that concerned Japanese during a different and disastrously difficult time.
Author | : JAMES. FAHEY |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1992 |
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PERSONAL NARRATIVES OF U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL.
Author | : Richard Tregaskis |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780394862682 |
Download Guadalcanal Diary Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Unlike some of those on Guadalcanal in the fall of 1942, Richard Tregaskis volunteered to be there. An on-location news correspondent, he lived alongside the other soldiers: sleeping on the ground -- only to be awoken by air raids -- eating the at times meager rations, and braving some of the most dangerous battlefields of World War II. He more than once narrowly escaped the enemy's fire, and so we have this incisive and exciting inside account of the initial landing of U.S. troops on Guadalcanal -- the significance of which cannot be overstated, for as a colonel told Tregaskis on the eve of the invasion: "It's the first time in history we've ever had a huge expedition of this kind accompanied by transports. It's of world-wide importance. You'd be surprised if you knew how many people all over the world are following this". Our new edition of Guadalcanal Diary will allow the world to continue to follow this amazing story. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author | : James J. Fahey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Corwin Mendenhall |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2013-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612512194 |
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A vividly detailed account of life aboard U.S. submarines in the Pacific during World War II.
Author | : John Ciardi |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1988-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781557280183 |
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Ciardi records his days and nights as a gunner on a B-29 in the South Pacific during four of the last terrible months of World War II.