Letters to Lee: From Pearl Harbor to the War's Final Mission

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................................... Letters to Lee From Pearl Harbor to the War’s Final Mission lt. general james v. edmundson ................ edited by dr. celia edmundson fordham university press New York : 2010 Copyright 䉷 2010 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Edmundson, James V. (James Valentine), 1915–2001. Letters to Lee : from Pearl Harbor to the war’s final mission / Lt. General James V. Edmundson, edited by Dr. Celia Edmundson. p. cm.— (World War II—the global, human, and ethical dimension) ISBN 978-0-8232-3096-9 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Edmundson, James V. (James Valentine), 1915–2001—Correspondence. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Personal narratives, American. 3. World War, 1939–1945—Aerial operations, American. 4. Soldiers—United States—Correspondence. I. Edmundson, Celia. II. Title. D811.E3224A3 2010 940.54⬘4973092—dc22 2009036161 Printed in the United States of America 12 11 10 5 4 3 2 1 First edition To Those Who Serve ...