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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . c o n t e n t s ........................................................... Preface ix Introduction 1 Sidney Pash 1. Roosevelt at the Rubicon: The Great Convoy Debate of 1941 10 J. Garry Clifford and Robert H. Ferrell 2. Containment, Rollback, and the Onset of the Pacific War, 1933–1941 38 Sidney Pash 3. ‘‘In Terms of Peoples Rather Than Nations’’: World War II Propaganda and Conceptions of U.S. Foreign Policy 68 Justin Hart 4. Allotment Annies and Other Wayward Wives: Wartime Concerns About Female Disloyalty and the Problem of the Returned Veteran 99 Ann Pfau 5. General George S. Patton and the War-Winning Sherman Tank Myth 129 Nicholas D. Molnar 6. Naval Gunfire Support in Operation Neptune: A Reexamination 150 Barbara Brooks Tomblin 7. Veterans Tell Their Stories and Why Historians and Others Listened 216 G. Kurt Piehler 8. Semper Paratus: The U.S. Coast Guard’s Flotilla 10 at Omaha Beach 236 Mark A. Snell 9. American Pacifism, the ‘‘Greatest Generation,’’ and World War II 259 Scott H. Bennett 10. Foreign Policy Experts as Service Intellectuals: The American Institute of Pacific Relations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Planning the Occupation of Japan During World War II 293 Yutaka Sasaki 11. Hiroshima and the U.S. Peace Movement: Commemoration of August 6, 1948–1960 333 Rieko Asai List of Contributors 367 Index 373 viii : Contents ...

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