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Arizona (Battleship) Kernan, Alvin B Maher, Robert A 1918- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 Personal narratives Sailors United States Biography Stratton, Donald 1922- United States. Navy Biography World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Area World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, American World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, AmericanFilter By Subjects
Arizona (Battleship) Kernan, Alvin B Maher, Robert A 1918- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 Personal narratives Sailors United States Biography Stratton, Donald 1922- United States. Navy Biography World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Area World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, American World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, AmericanSummary: "In one volume, three unforgettable memoirs that capture the brutality, fear, and heroism of the American land, air, and sea war in the Pacific. "Every generation is a secret society," former Marine pilot Samuel Hynes wrote. "The secret that my generation--the one that came of age during the Second World War--shared was simply the war itself." This volume brings together the powerful memoirs of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WORFisher-Alaniz, Karen.
Summary: On his 81st birthday, without explanation, Karen Alaniz's father placed two weathered notebooks on her lap. Inside were more than 400 pages of letters he'd written to his parents during WWII. She began reading them, and the more she read, the more she discovered about the man she never knew and the secret role he played in WWII. With painful memories now at the forefront of his thoughts, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54867 FISHER, MURRAY WILLIAM ALAKernan, Alvin B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.545 KERMaher, Robert A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kent State University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.545 MAHStratton, Donald
Summary: A memoir by a USS Arizona survivor describes his experience of the attacks that left him with burns over more than sixty-five percent of his body, his resolve to reenter service after a grueling recovery, and his contributions to some of the Pacific's most violent battles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016