The Warrior Image: Soldiers in American Culture from the Second World War to the Vietnam Era

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the฀ WarrIor฀ Image This page intentionally left blank THE WARRIOR IMAGE SOLDIERS IN AMERICAN CULTURE FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR TO THE VIETNAM ERA ANDREW J. HUEBNER the university of north carolina press chapel hill © 2008 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Set in Scala and Campaign types by BW&A Books, Inc. Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Huebner, Andrew J. The warrior image : soldiers in American culture from the Second World War to the Vietnam era / by Andrew J. Huebner. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8078-3144-1 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn 978-0-8078-5838-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. United States—History, Military—20th century. 2. United States—History, Military—20th century—Pictorial works. 3. Soldiers —United States—History—20th century. 4. Soldiers—United States —History—20th century—Pictoral works. 5. Soldiers in art. 6. Soldiers in literature. 7. Soldiers in motion pictures. 8. United States—Civilization—1945– 9. United States—Civilization—1945 —Pictorial works. 10. Popular culture—United States—History —20th century. i. Title. e745.h84 2008 306.2'7097309045 —dc22 2007027989 A version of chapter 4 appeared as “Kilroy Is Back: Images of American Soldiers in Korea, 1950–53, American Studies 45, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 103–29. © 2004 by the Mid-America American Studies Association. Used by permission. A version of chapter 6 appeared as “Rethinking American Press Coverage of the Vietnam War, 1965–68, Journalism History 31, no. 3 (Fall 2005): 150–61. © 2005 by the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University. Used by permission. Acknowledgments of permission to reprint other copyrighted material appear in a section preceding the index. 12 11 10 09 08 5 4 3 2 1 In memory of Doris Hultgren Huebner and John L. Thomas And for Mom, Dad, and Min War is not nice. War is something else. —william eastlake, The Bamboo Bed (1969) ...