Download or read book The Secret Diary of a World War 2 WAC written by James Meitner and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Diary of a World War 2 WAC was rediscovered and published just in time to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War 2! This book, Marion's original letters home and, and her diary provide us with a fascinating early history of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC). They deliver insights into the lives of some of the first women soldiers who served in the army between 1942 and 1945. Marion Meitner enlisted in July 1942 in the WAAC just six short weeks after President Roosevelt established it. She was the first woman from Waterloo, Wisconsin to become a Waac and among the first 1,000 women who joined this new women's military organization. Marion kept a diary of her army life while she served at the first WAAC Training Center in Fort Des Moines, Iowa, the WAAC Training Center in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and after she transferred to Camp Huckstep near Cairo, Egypt. Marion's diary provides us with a day by day understanding of the life of one woman who served in the army during World War 2. The Wacs in Egypt enjoyed active social lives while they worked with the thousands of lonely soldiers stationed there. They hitched rides on military C-46, C-47, and B-17 aircraft to join the flyboys while visiting the Suez Canal for a quick swim, or to enjoy weekend excursions to exotic places such as Benghazi, Casablanca, and Tel Aviv. Many took full advantage of the inexpensive travel opportunities offered by the army to visit Palestine, the Holy Land, Cyprus, and other exotic middle east destinations. Marion's diary, her letters, and this book provide us with detailed insights into the life of the first women who joined the army over 75 years ago.
Download or read book A Secret Place in My Heart written by Dottie Gill and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-03-10 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World War II Wac written by Helen Denton and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With most of the eligible boys in the Army and few to date, Helen (Kogel)Denton joined the Women's Army Corps (WAC). As secretary to the post commander, Helen immediately raised her hand to volunteer when a telegram came in asking for a person to join GEN Dwight Eisenhower's staff in England. Assigned a top secret assignment that she did not talk about for 50 years, Helen spent many days in early 1944 in a closed room, typing the orders for Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy, France, known as D-Day. Helen covers her experiences as a soldier and a member of the "Greatest Generation." Read on to learn about Helen's experiences dodging V-2 boms in London, meeting her future husband after she waded ashore on Utah Beach in July 1944, and her experiences as one of the first WACs to enter and work in a liberated Paris. Still going strong at 90, Helen's experiences since her retirement from Delta Airlines, working as a volunteer with the Red Cross, the Federation of Women's Clubs, the Collie Club of America, the VFW, and many other organizations, is a roadmap for those preparing their own journey into their retirement years.
Download or read book My Secret War written by Mary Pope Osborne and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Madeline's diaries for 1941 and 1942 reveal her experiences living on Long Island during World War II while her father is away in the Navy.
Download or read book Call Me Joe written by Nello Camilli and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, United States military regulations prohibited servicemen from keeping personal diaries and journals. After Nello's death in 1995, nine US Army Signal Corps message books were found among his belongings. He had used these books as his diary during his time overseas during World War II serving in the United States Army Air Corps 64th Fighter Wing. He participated in the Tunisian, Sicilian, Naples-Foggia, Rome-Arno, Southern France, Northern France, Rhineland and Central Europe Campaigns from 1942-1945. Through his diary, we get a firsthand account of what he experienced while overseas during the war. There are accounts of the movements of the troops and battles being fought, but between the lines we also get a glimpse of a young man's fear, homesickness and humanity. We have an opportunity to see the war and the places he was stationed through the eyes of a regular enlisted man in his early twenties.
Download or read book A Seat at the Table written by Hettie V. Williams and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Omar H. Ali, Simone R. Barrett, Tejai Beulah, Sandra Bolzenius, Carol Fowler, Lacey P. Hunter, Tiera C. Moore, Tedi A. Pascarella, John Portlock, Lauren T. Rorie, Tanya L. Roth, Marissa Jackson Sow, Virginia L. Summey, Hettie V. Williams, and Melissa Ziobro While Black women’s intellectual history continues to grow as an important subfield in historical studies, there remains a gap in scholarship devoted to the topic. To date, major volumes on American intellectual history tend to exclude the words, ideas, and contributions of these influential individuals. A Seat at the Table: Black Women Public Intellectuals in US History and Culture seeks to fill this void, presenting essays on African American women within the larger context of American intellectual history. Divided into four parts, the volume considers women in politics, art, government, journalism, media, education, and the military. Essays feature prominent figures such as Shirley Chisholm, Oprah Winfrey, journalist Charlotta Bass, and anti-abortion activist Mildred Fay Jefferson, as well as lesser-known individuals. The anthology begins with a discussion of the founders in Black women’s public intellectualism, providing a framework for understanding the elements, structure, and concerns central to their lives and work in the nineteenth century. The second section focuses on leaders in the Black Christian intellectual tradition, the civil rights era, and modern politics. Part three examines Black women in society and culture in the twentieth century, with essays on such topics as artists in the New Negro era; Joycelyn Elders, a public servant and former surgeon general; and America’s foremost Black woman influencer, Oprah. Lastly, part four concerns Black women and their ideas about public service—particularly military service—with essays on service members during World War II and the post-WWII military. Taken as a whole, A Seat at the Table is an important anthology that helps to establish the validity and existence of heretofore neglected intellectual traditions in the public square.
Download or read book My Secret War written by Mary Pope Osborne and published by . This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Madeline's diaries for 1941 and 1942 reveal her experiences living on Long Island during World War II while her father is away in the Navy.
Download or read book My Secret War written by Mary Pope Osborne and published by Live Oak Media (NY). This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating period details provide an authentic backdrop for the diaries of eighth-grader Madeline Beck, as she reveals her unusual experiences living in a Long Island boardinghouse while her father is stationed in the Pacific during wartime America.
Download or read book The Women s Army Corps written by Mattie E. Treadwell and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Women s Army Corps 1945 1978 written by Bettie J. Morden and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After yearsout of print, this new and redesigned book brings back the best and most complete history of the Women's Army Corps. Loaded with history, tables, charts, statistics, photos, personalities, and many useful appendices (including a history of WAC uniforms), The Women's Army Corps, 1945-1978 is must reading for anyone who served those years in the Army as well as for those who want a complete history of the modern-day military. Author Bettie Morden served from 1942-1972 and she used her experience and access to people and records to compile the definitive reference work. Col. Morden is a graduate of the WAC Officers' Advanced Course (1962); Command and General Staff College (1964); and the Army Management School (1965). She has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, and the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster.
Download or read book Bury My Heart in a Free Land written by Hettie V. Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the history and contributions of black women intellectuals from the late 19th century to the present, this book highlights individuals who are often overlooked in the study of the American intellectual tradition. This edited volume of essays on black women intellectuals in modern U.S. history illuminates the relevance of these women in the development of U.S. society and culture. The collection traces the development of black women's voices from the late 19th century to the present day. Covering both well-known and lesser-known individuals, Bury My Heart in a Free Land gives voice to the passion and clarity of thought of black women intellectuals on various arenas in American lifefrom the social sciences, history, and literature to politics, education, religion, and art. The essays address a broad range of outstanding black women that include preachers, abolitionists, writers, civil rights activists, and artists. A section entitled "Black Women Intellectuals in the New Negro Era" highlights black women intellectuals such as Jessie Redmon Fauset and Elizabeth Catlett and offers new insights on black women who have been significantly overlooked in American intellectual history.
Download or read book Selling War written by Nicholas John Cull and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-26 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "British propaganda brought America to the brink of war, and left it to the Japanese and Hitler to finish the job." So concludes Nicholas Cull in this absorbing study of how the United States was transformed from isolationism to belligerence in the years before the attack on Pearl Harbor. From the moment it realized that all was lost without American aid, the British Government employed a host of persuasive tactics to draw the US to its rescue. With the help of talents as varied as those of matinee idol Leslie Howard, Oxford philosopher Isaiah Berlin and society photographer Cecil Beaton, no section of America remained untouched and no method--from Secret Service intrigue to the publication of horrifying pictures of Nazi atrocities--remained untried. The British sought and won the support of key journalists and broadcasters, including Edward R. Murrow, Dorothy Thompson and Walter Winchell; Hollywood film makers also played a willing part. Cull details these and other propaganda activities, covering the entire range of the British effort. A fascinating story of how a foreign country provoked America's involvement in its greatest war, Selling War will appeal to all those interested in the modern cultural and political history of Britain and the United States.
Download or read book A Religious History of the American GI in World War II written by G. Kurt Piehler and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G. Kurt Piehler underscores the significant institutional and cultural shift in the place of religion in the armed forces during World War II.
Download or read book Patton s War written by Kevin M. Hymel and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George S. Patton Jr. lived an exciting life in war and peace, but he is best remembered for his World War II battlefield exploits. Patton’s War: An American General’s Combat Leadership: November 1942–July 1944, the first of three volumes, follows the general from the beaches of Morocco to the fields of France, right before the birth of Third Army on the continent. In highly engaging fashion, Kevin Hymel uncovers new facts and challenges long-held beliefs about the mercurial Patton, not only examining his relationships with his superiors and fellow generals and colonels, but also with the soldiers of all ranks whom he led. Using new sources unavailable to previous historians and through extensive research of soldiers’ memoirs and interviews, Hymel adds a new dimension to the telling of Patton’s WWII story.
Download or read book Alaska at War 1941 1945 written by Fern Chandonnet and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the past two hundred years, only one United States territory has experienced foreign occupation: Alaska. Available for the first time in paperback, Alaska at War brings readers face to face with the North Pacific front in World War II. Wide-ranging essays cover the war as seen by Alaskan eyes, including the Japanese invasion of the Attu and Kiska islands, the effects of the war on Aleutian Islanders, and the American campaign to recover occupied territory. Whether you’re a historian or a novice student interested in this pivotal period of American history, Alaska at War provides fascinating insight into the background, history, and cultural impact of war on the Alaskan homefront.
Download or read book United States Army in World War 2 Special Studies Manhattan the Army and the Atomic Bomb Clothbound written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he U.S. Army played a key role in the formation and administration of the Manhattan Project, the World War II organization which produced the atomic bombs that not only contributed decisively to ending the war with Japan but also opened the way to a new atomic age. The volume begins with a prologue, designed to provide the reader with a brief survey of the history of atomic energy and to explain in layman’s terms certain technical aspects of atomic science essential to an understanding of the major problems occurring in the development of an atomic weapon. Early chapters describe the beginning of the Army’s atomic mission, including the formation of the Manhattan District, the first steps in acquiring the means to produce atomic weapons and the appointment of General Groves. Subsequent topical chapters trace the building and operation of the large-scale process plants for the production of fissionable materials; the administration of a broad range of support activities, such as security and community management; and the fabrication, testing, and combat employment of atomic bombs. A concluding section describes how the Army dealt with the difficult problems arising during its unexpectedly prolonged postwar trusteeship of the project until December 1946, when the newly created civilian agency – the United States Atomic Energy Commission – assumed responsibility for atomic energy matters.
Download or read book The Army Air Forces in World War II Men and planes written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
