The Williwaw War
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Williwaw War C The Arkansas National Guard In The Aleutians In World War Ii
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 1992
Williwaw War C The Arkansas National Guard In The Aleutians In World War Ii written by and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Aleutian Islands (Alaska) categories.
The Williwaw War
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Author : Donald Goldstein
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 1992-07-01
The Williwaw War written by Donald Goldstein and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-07-01 with History categories.
When the 206th Coast Artillery Regiment of the Arkansas National Guard was called into federal service in January of 1941, few of the soldiers saw this action as anything more than a temporary detour in their lives. The war, after all, was in Europe and Asia and did not seem to involve them; many of the men thought they would serve their one-year enlistment and go home. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed all that. The Williwaw War highlights the event sthat shaped the service of Arkansas’s 206th in the Aleutian Islands, including the Japanese strikes on Dutch Harbor on the third and fourth of June 1942, as well as the naval battle of the Komandorski Islands and the recapture of Attu and Kiska. Written by the noted co-authors of the best-welling books on World War II, The Williwaw War chronicles the efforts of the men of the 206th as they battled terrible weather, overwhelming boredome and deprivation, and the Japanese, who were succesfully attempting to distract the Americans from the main Japanese assault on Midway Island.
The Williwaw War
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Author : Donald Goldstein
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 1992-07-01
The Williwaw War written by Donald Goldstein and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-07-01 with History categories.
"An amazing story of Arkansas soldiers and their struggle in the Aleutians. A must read book for those who want to learn about a forgotten part of that great war told from a soldier's point of view." -Major General James A. Ryan The Adjutant General Military Department of Arkansas
Where The Williwaw Blows
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Author : Leonard Feinberg
language : en
Publisher: Pilgrims Process, Inc.
Release Date : 2003
Where The Williwaw Blows written by Leonard Feinberg and has been published by Pilgrims Process, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Fiction categories.
Williwaw
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Author : Gore Vidal
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2020-02-25
Williwaw written by Gore Vidal and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-25 with History categories.
Williwaw first published in 1946, is the notable first novel of a young Gore Vidal, who during World War II was a first mate of a supply ship stationed in the Aleutian Islands. The story revolves around the small ship and her crew as they battle both the elements in the Bering Sea and the mounting tensions between some of the crew members. An intense wind—williwaw—strikes the ship, damaging the craft as she struggles to make her way back to port.
Unsung Hero Forgotten War
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Author : G. F. Schreader
language : en
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Release Date : 2013-11
Unsung Hero Forgotten War written by G. F. Schreader and has been published by Outskirts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11 with History categories.
Attu Island, the Aleutians, May 11, 1943, on the tail winds of a violent williwaw, the U.S. army and naval invasion force consisting of 15,000 American boys began the amphibious assault of Attu to drive out the Japanese garrison of a mere 2,500 still holding the island. Attu, at the western tip of the Aleutian island chain, was halfway to Japan. President Roosevelt wanted them out at any cost. This was to be the pivotal battle of the campaign to finally drive the Japanese monster off America's soil and prevent a possible future invasion of North America through Alaska. To the war planners of Western Defense Command, the odds were overwhelmingly favorable. Many of the boys were not even equipped with winter gear. The assault would be a quick thirty-six hour operation. It turned into a frozen, hellish nightmare that lasted twenty days. The Battle of Attu ranks second only to Iwo Jima in terms of the ratio of casualties to the number of combatants engaged for a single battle campaign operation. In the annals of WWII history, it was to become known as America's Forgotten War. The author's father was one of those boys who rode the assault wave that landed at Massacre Bay and marched up the hogback to engage the Japanese in one of the bloodiest and costliest battles of WWII. He would become a casualty, but one who would survive. This book is his story, as told to his son, the author. It is the story of an army soldier's journey from a depression era coal region town in eastern Pennsylvania to the Aleutian Islands half a world away and back again. It is not only his story, but about the many unsung heroes of the Aleutian Campaign who sacrificed so much to preserve America's freedom during the dark days of WWII.
Williwaw
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Author : Gore Vidal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
Williwaw written by Gore Vidal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with Sailors categories.
War Wartime Changes The Transformation Of Ar 1940 1945 C
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Author : C. Calvin Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 1986
War Wartime Changes The Transformation Of Ar 1940 1945 C written by C. Calvin Smith and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Arkansas categories.
This is a lively history of specific social, political, and economic changes that all-out war brought to the home front in mid-America. Drawing from letters to the editor in local and state papers, from editorials, from personal interviews, and from the manuscript collections left by state political leaders, Calvin Smith brings into focus the impact of wartime not only upon agricultural and business economics but also upon particular social groups and the lives of individuals.
The Wind Is Not A River
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Author : Brian Payton
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2014-01-07
The Wind Is Not A River written by Brian Payton and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-07 with Fiction categories.
The Wind Is Not a River is Brian Payton's gripping tale of survival and an epic love story in which a husband and wife—separated by the only battle of World War II to take place on American soil—fight to reunite in Alaska's starkly beautiful Aleutian Islands. Following the death of his younger brother in Europe, journalist John Easley is determined to find meaning in his loss. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Helen, he heads north to investigate the Japanese invasion of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, a story censored by the U.S. government. While John is accompanying a crew on a bombing run, his plane is shot down over the island of Attu. He survives only to find himself exposed to a harsh and unforgiving wilderness, known as “the birthplace of winds.” There, John must battle the elements, starvation, and his own remorse while evading discovery by the Japanese. Alone at home, Helen struggles with the burden of her husband's disappearance. Caught in extraordinary circumstances, in this new world of the missing, she is forced to reimagine who she is—and what she is capable of doing. Somehow, she must find John and bring him home, a quest that takes her into the farthest reaches of the war, beyond the safety of everything she knows.
The Pacific War Papers
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Author : Donald M. Goldstein
language : en
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2014-05-27
The Pacific War Papers written by Donald M. Goldstein and has been published by Potomac Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with History categories.
The Pacific War Papers is an annotated collection of extremely rare Japanese primary-source documents, translated into English, that provides an invalu-able resource for historians and students of World War II. These naval and diplomatic documents come from the collection of the late Gordon Prange, the eminent scholar of Pearl Harbor, who obtained them from Japanese naval leaders while working for the Military History Section of the American forces that occupied Japan. Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon have assembled this collection so that these important documents are not lost to history. The editors also provide expert commentary to introduce and explain the importance of the materials. This book forms the companion volume to The Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside the Japanese Plans (Brassey's, Inc., 1993), which Goldstein and Dillon also edited. Most of the documents published here are not available anywhere else, with many translated for the first time. This edited collection covers three main topics: the Japanese navy before World War II, prewar diplomacy and politics, and Japanese naval operations and policy during the war. The documents include diary extracts and candid, short monographs written by high-ranking Japanese officers immediately after the war. They shed new light on the vast naval buildup before the war, the development of the navy's operational concepts for war with the United States, the organization and tactics of aircraft carrier forces, and the failure of Japanese submarine operations. No World War II library will be complete without this important volume.