Returning Veteran

Little Rock, Arkansas

January 7 – February 16, 1946

On the gray, frigid Monday afternoon of January 7, while I was pack­ing to leave Berlin, Rote was preparing for a furlough with Howy, hitchhiking on Army vehicles to Switzerland.

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excerpt from “The Weller Dispatches”, the concluding essay by Anthony Weller in “FIRST INTO NAGASAKI: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War” by George Weller (1907-2002), pub. by Crown

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The Seige of Salt Cove

DEATH VALLEY, IWO JIMA

FEBRUARY 25, 1945

On June 19, 1944, as the Japanese unleashed their air offensive against the U.S. Fifth Fleet in the Philippine Sea, 101 land-based Japanese aircraft scrambled off the island of Iwo Jima.

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Twenty Five Yards of War

Voice of D-Day

Voices of Valor

Stephen Ambrose

Nothing Like It In The World

To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian

Band of Brothers

Halleck: Lincoln’s Chief of Staff

Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals