Remembering The Good War: Minnesota's Greatest Generation

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Page numbers in italic refer to illustrations . Abe, Toshio, 23–24, 42–43, 58–59, 151–52 Abercrombie, ND, 10, 29, 112, 260 African Americans: employment opportunities for, xii, 87, 89; in military service, 40, 48–49, 50–52, 128–29, 137; segregation in military and, 56–57; racism and, xi, 53–54, 55, 80–81, 217 aftermath of war: adjustment to normal life, 165, 263, 267–70, 271–75, 283; effect of combat memories and, 266, 269–70, 275; guilt, 200, 278; loss of loved ones, 272, 277–78; psychological problems, 204, 225–26, 276; restlessness, 264–65; sense of disadvantage , 281–82. See also postwar era Aguirre, Manuel, 34, 34–35, 241–42 Aiea Heights Naval Hospital, HI, 214, 215 air combat missions, 153–54, 162; capture of bomber crew on, 175–76; civilian targets, 134; devastation caused by, 248, 290; in Europe, 123, 126; fear of capture by enemy on, 149; over Japan, 105–7, 148, 174, 200; secrecy about, 186–87; segregated unit and, 128–27 aircraft manufacturing, 72, 73, 74–75, 85 Air Evacuation Group One, 222 air evacuation missions, 150, 222–26 Air Group Nine, 153 air raid drills, 97, 103 alcohol consumption, 158, 168 Aleutian Islands, xii, 31, 146 Alexandria, MN, 47, 195 Allied invasion of Europe, fiftieth anniversary of, 287–88. See also D-Day America (troop ship), 53 American Military Government, in postwar Germany, 243 ammunition manufacturing, 76, 87–88, 90, 91 Amundson, Bill, 10, 83, 223–224, 224 Amundson, Margaret, 83 Andersen, Elmer L., xiii, 8, 29 Index 303 Arcement, Bud, 75 Arcement, Frances Olson, 74–76, 75 Ardennes Offensive, 128, 211 Arizona (battleship), 22 Aspro SS-309 (submarine), 156–57, 236 attitude towards enemy: anger, 243; arrogance, 11, 13, 16, 25; changes in, postwar, 248, 254, 286; compassion , 133, 134, 152, 174; dehumanization , 145–46; fear, 148, 175–76; hatred, 12, 143, 149–51; stereotypes and, 147–48 Aurora, MN, 290 Austin, MN, 110 automobiles, 119, 256–57 Avenger Field, Sweetwater, TX, 63, 64 Band of Brothers (book and TV miniseries ), 275, 289 Bartlett, Wilbert, 54–56, 293, 293–94 basic training, 27, 39, 59–61, 131, 134; army cook’s experience of, 136–37; brevity of, 56–57, 124; camaraderie of, 41; homesickness and, 34–35, 37–38, 42; intensity of, 37, 40; lives transformed by, 28, 36, 49 Baumann, Dick, 154–56, 168–69, 229–30, 265 Bavaria, 244 bayonets, 41, 133 Beck, James, 20, 79–80, 80, 257–58, 262 Beck, Velda, 79–81, 80, 181, 257–58, 262 Behlen, John, 118–19 Belgium, 205, 274 Benton County, MN, 150 Bergstein, Germany, 288–89 black market, 96, 246, 247, 252 blackouts, 97, 103, 106 Blue Earth, MN, 16, 119 Boeing aircraft factory, Renton, WA, 17–18, 74–75, 99–100 Boggs, Aileen Frazier, 104, 185–87 Boggs, Mel, 91–92, 104, 134, 185–87 bond drives, 101, 118, 173 Borkenhagen, Ervin, 119–20, 256–57 Branham, Frederick, 41, 124, 124–25, 269 Breitbarth, Eldor, 115–16 Breitbarth, Lois, 13, 234 Broberg, Edmond, 184 Broberg, Maybelle, 200 Brooklyn Center, MN, 15 Brower, Ardice, 69–71, 70 Brown, Lawrence, 56–57, 137, 203, 208–9 Brueggeman, Catherine Lemmer, 8, 211–13, 213, 237 B29 Superfortress (bomber): atomic bomb dropped by, 106–7, incendiary raids on Japan and, 105, 174–75, 290, 291; manufacture of, 74; pilots of, 148, 200, 228, 271, 290–92 Buczynski, Henry, 136–37 Bulge, battle of, 124, 196 Burma, 121, 151–52 Calgary, Alberta, 20 California, xii, 18, 23, 34, 43, 76–77. See also San Diego, CA; San Francisco , CA Camp Blanding, FL, 131 Camp Campbell, KY, 136 Camp Downs, Great Lakes Naval Training Center, IL, 51 Camp Hood, TX, 60 Camp Joseph T. Robinson, AR, 40–41, 124 Camp Pendleton, CA, 86 Camp Savage, MN, x, 42–43, 152 Camp Wheeler, GA, 79 Camp Wolters, TX, 43, 58 Canada, Americans in military service of, 20–21 Capiz, Henry T., 14, 60–61, 92–93, 162–63, 247–48 Carleton College, Northfield, MN, 16–17 Carver County, MN, 285 casualties: chaplains responding to, 196, 198–99; convalescence and, 217–18; development of callus and, 135; difficulty of postwar adjustment and, 166–67, 273–74; difficulty of treatment and, 204–6, 210–12, 214–16, 222–24; in Hiroshima, 107; loneliness of patients and, 219–20; memories of being wounded and, 132, 160–61, 166, 208; in Pearl Harbor attack, 23; reactions of loved ones and, 79, 108; reluctance...