World War II Remembered

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi World War II Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii The European Theater European Theater Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Cage, Robert Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 The Wrong Town, James Ashley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 On Death, Hunting, and Killing, Robert Christie . . . . . . . . 14 Coming in Low under the Clouds, Francis Dymnicki . . . . . 22 Meeting the Enemy, Kingsley Ervin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Limited Service, John Fagan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Three Unlikely Wounds, Clinton Gardner. . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Captured in The Bulge, William Hotaling . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Coffee and Doughnuts, Anyone? Pamela Mayer. . . . . . . . . 57 Shot Down over The Bulge, Malcolm McLane . . . . . . . . . . 64 A Quartermaster on D-Day, Edward Scheu. . . . . . . . . . . . 73 The Bitter End, Robert Stambaugh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 The Pacific Theater and Far East Pacific Theater Map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Over the Hump, Frank Browning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 My Accident-Prone Navy, Samuel Doak. . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Rescued by Ingrid Bergman, Robert Encherman. . . . . . . . 100 Tiger, Tiger, George Harris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Ten Days in August, John Hennessey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Journey to Tokyo Bay, Alan Horton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Prisoner, James Keeley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Problem of the Bamboo Poles, Robert Stanton. . . . . . . . . 126 From Nashville to Nagasaki, William Tate. . . . . . . . . . . 130 An Avenger Pilot, Arthur Turner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Guinea Pigs in New Guinea, John Weeks. . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Stateside Service The Flight of the WASP, Louise Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Earning my Crampons, Ann Carter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Whose War Is This? Elinor Horne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 The Birth of the United Nations, Elizabeth Hunter. . . . . . . 174 Secret Weapon? John Jenkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Encrypted Messages, Charles Latham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 A Quaker’s War, Frank Miles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Matters of Destiny, Avery Post. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Our Floating Runway, Benjamin Sanderson. . . . . . . . . . . 199 A Conscientious Objector’s Tale, Robert Sokol. . . . . . . . . 204 Security: Navy Style, Robert Stragnell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Wartime in Europe and South America The Early War, Rachel Aubrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Death of the Graf Spee, Ana Mayor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 England Under Siege, Pamela Phipps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 A Child in Norway Under the Nazis, Agnar Pytte. . . . . . . 232 Invasion and Escape, Jean Sonder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Flight from Bulgaria, Joan Wilson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 Home Front Domestic Details, Jane Barlow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 A Fortuitous Encounter, Barbara Gilbert. . . . . . . . . . . . 266 They Also Serve, Marion Grassi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 The Defense of America, Midge Guise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Transitions, Mary Jenkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 “Loose Lips,” Marcia Khatri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 Parallel Realities, Sally Nelson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Marriage in Wartime, Trudie Nicholson. . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 Looking Through Barbed Wire, Lafayette Noda. . . . . . . . 297 A Sad Lesson Learned, Sonia Sheridan. . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 Interning the Japanese, Libby Stragnell. . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 The War Comes to Vermont, Betsy Sylvester. . . . . . . . . . 310 Food Was My Weapon, Jane von Salis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 The Hand of Destiny, Constance Wells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318 Post-War Service From KP to Blair House, Jean Beard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Bouncing Along with Zhukov, Janine Hawkes. . . . . . . . . 333 Epilogue Hawks, Robert Christie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 List of Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 ...