Download or read book Camp Tyson written by Shannon McFarlin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1941, Paris, Tennessee, became the home of Camp Tyson. The 2,000-acre camp named for Knoxville World War I veteran Brig. Gen. Lawrence Tyson was built by some 800 laborers and consisted of 450 buildings including barracks, a hospital, and a theater. Over the course of World War II, the camp grew to about 6,000 acres in size and served as a training ground for as many as 25,000 servicemen, as well as a POW camp for many Germans and Italian prisoners. At Camp Tyson, soldiers trained to construct, maintain, and operate barrage balloons. These balloons were successfully used to provide anti-aircraft protection during World War I and again in World War II with the help of those trained in Henry County. However, the atomic bomb made barrage balloons obsolete, and after the war, Camp Tyson was decommissioned.
Download or read book As If They Were Ours The Story of Camp Tyson America s Only Barrage Balloon Training Facility written by Shannon McFarlin and published by Merriam Press. This book was released on 2016-01-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press World War II History No. 7 First Edition, 2015 Camp Tyson was unique and historic for several reasons: It was the only barrage balloon training facility in the U.S. in World War II, so the soldiers who were there had an experience unlike any other soldiers anywhere. The Camp also became engrained in the lives of Henry Countians - most every home in Paris, Tennessee, had a soldier and his family living with them (including the author's) and the camp is credited with modernizing Paris and the county. Most importantly, however, Camp Tyson was the home of the all-black 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, which was the first battalion to rush onto the beaches on D-Day. They were trained for that battle at Camp Tyson and their accomplishments have been largely unheralded. Additionally, both Italian and German prisoners of war were held there during and after the war. The author was able to track down several of the black soldiers who were trained there and were at D-Day, and also has first-person accounts from white soldiers who were at the camp, as well as former soldiers who remember the German and Italian prisoners. Much of the book is first-person interviews, as well as documents from the Library of Congress and other government sources that have never been published before. The author, Shannon McFarlin, now lives in the family homeplace in Paris, Tennessee. She grew up listening to stories told about Camp Tyson from her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother and was inspired to write about the Camp from an early age. She has worked as a news reporter for most of her working life, for newspapers in Ohio and Tennessee, and is currently the News Director for a large West Tennessee radio station, WENK/WTPR, and its website and writes for Paris! magazine. She has a master's degree in public history and a bachelor's degree in history from Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, and also studied history at Bowling Green State University. She was awarded first place in Investigative Journalism in 1981 by the Ohio Associated Press and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize that same year. Contents: Chapter 1: Eddie Finds A New Home Chapter 2: Motors Roared, Hammers Thudded And Saws Swished Chapter 3: They Just Came Out And Destroyed Our Farms, Our Barns, Our House" Chapter 4: "They Didn't Feel Like Strangers" Chapter 5: Flying Elephants In The Sky Chapter 6: "It Just Exploded" Chapter 7: Shot Down Over Lake Erie Chapter 8: Good Times For Entrepreneurs Chapter 9: "They Would Throw Hands of Candy And Gum At Us As They Marched By" Chapter 10: "We Reached Out To Those Boys As If They Were Ours" Chapter 11: "War Is Hell, But Pretty Entertaining, Too" Chapter 12: "The Day Jeanette MacDonald Came To Town" Chapter 13: Death In An Army Camp Chapter 14: "The Deuces"; The African-American Experience Chapter 15: "We Were There. We Did Our Part" Chapter 16: Working There Was An Education In Itself Chapter 17: A Close Encounter Of A General Kind Chapter 18: "This Is Your Life, Pearl Routon" Chapter 19: 4,000 Hamburgers To Go Chapter 20: "Paris Has Nowhere To Go But Up, So I'm Staying Right Here" Chapter 21: Hospitality, Southern Style Chapter 22: Haul 'Er Down Chapter 23: From Surplus To POW Camp Chapter 24: Didn't You Hear? The War Is Over! Chapter 25: "It Was Considered Sinful" Chapter 26: "Don't Come Back From Washington Without A Signed Deed" Chapter 27: Soldiers Tell Their Stories Chapter 28: "Hi There, Soldier!" Chapter 29: Keepers Of The Flame 40 photos footnotes
Download or read book Axis Prisoners of War in Tennessee written by Antonio S. Thompson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-03-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, Axis prisoners of war received arguably better treatment in the U.S. than anywhere else. Bound by the Geneva Convention but also hoping for reciprocal treatment of American POWs, the U.S. sought to humanely house and employ 425,000 Axis prisoners, many in rural communities in the South. This is the first book-length examination of Tennessee's role in the POW program, and how the influx of prisoners affected communities. Towns like Tullahoma transformed into military metropolises. Memphis received millions in defense spending. Paris had a secret barrage balloon base. The wooded Crossville camp housed German and Italian officers. Prisoners worked tobacco, lumber and cotton across the state. Some threatened escape or worse. When the program ended, more than 25,000 POWs lived and worked in Tennessee.
Download or read book The U S Army Barrage Balloon Program written by James R. Shock and published by Merriam Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Forgotten written by Linda Hervieux and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of an all-black battalion whose crucial contributions at D-Day have gone unrecognised to this day.
Download or read book Termination of Civilian Conservation Corps and National Youth Administration written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Rise of Mike Tyson Heavyweight written by William F. McNeil and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering Mike Tyson's rise through the amateur and professional boxing ranks, this book follows the Brooklyn native from his early years as a young criminal in Brownsville to his 1988 heavyweight unification match with Michael Spinks. The book focuses on the Catskill Boxing Club--where boxing guru Cus D'Amato trained the 210-pound teenager in the finer points of the sport and developed his impregnable defense--and on his home life with D'Amato and surrogate mother Camille Ewald and the other young fighters who lived with them. Tyson's boxing education began in the unauthorized "smokers" held every week in the Bronx, matching his skills against older, more experienced fighters. He won the 1981 Amateur Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Colorado Springs at the age of 14 and repeated the amazing feat the following year. By 1985, finding no other challenging amateur competition, he was forced to join the professional ranks where, in November 1986, he became the youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history. Less than two years later, he unified the crown, establishing himself as one of the most dominant heavyweight fighters the sport had ever seen.
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Download or read book Undisputed Truth written by Mike Tyson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be sure to check out IRON AMBITION: My Life with Cus D’Amato by Mike Tyson “Raw, powerful and disturbing—a head-spinning take on Mr. Tyson's life.”—Wall Street Journal Philosopher, Broadway headliner, fighter, felon—Mike Tyson has defied stereotypes, expectations, and a lot of conventional wisdom during his three decades in the public eye. Bullied as a boy in the toughest, poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn, Tyson grew up to become one of the most ferocious boxers of all time—and the youngest heavyweight champion ever. But his brilliance in the ring was often compromised by reckless behavior. Yet—even after hitting rock bottom—the man who once admitted being addicted “to everything” fought his way back, achieving triumphant success as an actor and newfound happiness and stability as a father and husband. Brutal, honest, raw, and often hilarious, Undisputed Truth is the singular journey of an inspiring American original.
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Download or read book The Star in the Window written by Louis C. Langone and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a service banner adorned with stars was displayed in a homes window during World War II, it meant a family member was involved in the war. Some of the soldiers never returned, but those who did come home carried memories and war stories. In The Star in the Window, author Louis C. Langone tells the stories of more than seventy-five WWII veterans who lived in Waterville and Central New York. Langone personally interviewed and listened to more than 100 men and women telling their wartime storiesfrom bombing missions over Europe to the island hopping campaigns of the Pacific to suffering as prisoners of war. The narratives are supplemented with material from books, periodicals, the Internet, press releases, unit histories, and letters, providing a mix of memories and facts. Photographs and community honor rolls are also included. The Star in the Window not only preserves special WWII memories, but also gives insight into the hardships endured and sacrifices made by the veterans of the Central New York area. It provides an opportunity to experience history through the eyes and ears of veterans from the various military branches of service revealing shocking and obscure incidents of the war.
