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Author | : Ralph E. Sirianni |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2014-09-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786484276 |
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In January 1943, not long after his nineteenth birthday, Ralph Sirianni was drafted for active duty by the U.S. Army. Ordered to the European Theatre of Operations in February 1944, Sgt. Sirianni served as the right waist gunner on a B-17. On his seventh mission over Germany, the plane--severely damaged by German fighters--crashed near Wildeshausen. With shrapnel in his legs and shoulder, Sirianni bailed out, and he spent the following 15 months in the infamous Stalag Luft I prisoner of war camp. This memoir offers harrowing stories of combat, including detailed descriptions of each of Sirianni's combat missions; reveals the horrors of confinement and the despair of skin-of-the-teeth survival; and remembers camaraderie in the face of German abuse. Valuable for its vivid account of aerial warfare and imprisonment, this memoir is also a story of postwar reconciliation, both psychological and social. Appendices offer excerpts from Sirianni's POW log book and pilot George McFall's firsthand account of the ill-fated final mission.
Author | : Sarah Kovner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2020-09-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 067473761X |
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Many Allied POWs in the Pacific theater of World War II suffered terribly. But abuse wasn't a matter of Japanese policy, as is commonly assumed. Sarah Kovner shows poorly trained guards and rogue commanders inflicted the most horrific damage. Camps close to centers of imperial power tended to be less violent, and many POWs died from friendly fire.
Author | : John G. Hubbell |
Publisher | : Dissertation.com |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Prisoners of war, American |
ISBN | : 9780595138883 |
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"With the first page the book explodes...a story of fortitude and patriotism to inspire generations of Americans to come." —Philadelphia Evening Bulletin "It's to our experience as Blackstone is to the law." —Col. George E. "Bud" Day, USAF (Ret.), attorney, former POW and Medal of Honor winner
Author | : Charlie Plumb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1995-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781881886013 |
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'I'm No Hero' is the story of Charlie Plumb, but it is also the story of all POWs who faced an isolated world of degradation, loneliness, tedium, hunger, and pain. It is no pretty story. It tells of the torture room with walls built to muffle human screams, of the 'rope trick' and 'fanbelt' techniques designed to make a man talk, of illness, of insanity. But it also tells of the ingenuity and creativity which allowed the men to outsmart their guards and to set up communication systems, classes, escape plans, and to maintain their chain of command. It is a revealing story. It pictures men who are reduced to the basics physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. It shows how these situations can be survived with individual integrity and pride intact. It tells of growing relationships with God which came as a result of desperate need. It outlines a closed society's methods of developing rules which allow members to live together in harmony. It is a story of hope, for it suggests that the techniques used by POWs to survive their conditions can be used by others to overcome similar situations faced in day-to-day living.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Vietnam War, 1961-1975 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Asia, Southeastern |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Southeast Asia |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Tom Wilber |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2021-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1583679103 |
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A fresh look at the how US troops played a part in the resistance of US troops to the American war in Vietnam Even if you don't know much about the war in Vietnam, you've probably heard of "The Hanoi Hilton," or Hoa Lo Prison, where captured U.S. soldiers were held. What they did there and whether they were treated well or badly by the Vietnamese became lasting controversies. As military personnel returned from captivity in 1973, Americans became riveted by POW coming-home stories. What had gone on behind these prison walls? Along with legends of lionized heroes who endured torture rather than reveal sensitive military information, there were news leaks suggesting that others had denounced the war in return for favorable treatment. What wasn't acknowledged, however, is that U.S. troop opposition to the war was vast and reached well into Hoa Loa Prison. Half a century after the fact, Dissenting POWs emerges to recover this history, and to discover what drove the factionalism in Hoa Lo. Looking into the underlying factional divide between pro-war “hardliners” and anti-war “dissidents” among the POWs, authors Wilber and Lembcke delve into the postwar American culture that created the myths of the Hero-POW and the dissidents blamed for the loss of the war. What they found was surprising: It wasn’t simply that some POWs were for the war and others against it, nor was it an officers-versus-enlisted-men standoff. Rather, it was the class backgrounds of the captives and their pre-captive experience that drew the lines. After the war, the hardcore hero-holdouts—like John McCain—moved on to careers in politics and business, while the dissidents faded from view as the antiwar movement, that might otherwise have championed them, disbanded. Today, Dissenting POWs is a necessary myth-buster, disabusing us of the revisionism that has replaced actual GI resistance with images of suffering POWs—ennobled victims that serve to suppress the fundamental questions of America’s drift to endless war.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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Presents State estimates of personal income. It presents the following estimates for each State, for the eight Census regions, and for the U.S. Includes: annual estimates of total and per capita personal income for 1929-93; annual estimates of total and per capita disposable personal income for 1948-93; annual estimates of personal income by major type of payment and by industry for 1929-93, and quarterly estimates of total personal income for 1969-93. Extensive maps, charts and tables.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
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