Download or read book World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument Alaska California Hawaii 2011 written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World War Ii Valor in the Pacific National Monument written by Source Wikipedia and published by Booksllc.Net. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 22. Chapters: Atka Island, Attu Island, Kiska, Tulelake camp, Tule Lake War Relocation Center, USS Arizona Memorial, USS Missouri (BB-63). Excerpt: USS Missouri (BB-63) ("Mighty Mo" or "Big Mo") is a United States Navy Iowa-class battleship and was the third ship of the U.S. Navy to be named in honor of the US state of Missouri. Missouri was the last battleship built by the United States and was the site of the surrender of the Empire of Japan which ended World War II. Missouri was ordered in 1940 and commissioned in June 1944. In the Pacific Theater of World War II she fought in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and shelled the Japanese home islands, and she fought in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953. She was decommissioned in 1955 into the United States Navy reserve fleets (the "Mothball Fleet"), but reactivated and modernized in 1984 as part of the 600-ship Navy plan, and provided fire support during Operation Desert Storm in January/February 1991. Missouri received a total of 11 battle stars for service in World War II, Korea, and the Persian Gulf, and was finally decommissioned on 31 March 1992, but remained on the Naval Vessel Register until her name was struck in January 1995. In 1998, she was donated to the USS Missouri Memorial Association and became a museum ship at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Missouri was one of the Iowa-class "fast battleship" designs planned in 1938 by the Preliminary Design Branch at the Bureau of Construction and Repair. She was laid down at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on 6 January 1941, launched on 29 January 1944 and commissioned on 11 June with Captain William Callaghan in command. The ship was the third of the Iowa class, but the fourth and final Iowa-class ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy. The ship was christened at her launching by Mary Margaret Truman, daughter of Harry S. Truman, then a United...
Download or read book World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument Visitor Center Development written by United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument Visitor Center Development written by United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument Ticketing System Study written by Yen Le and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memorializing Pearl Harbor written by Geoffrey M. White and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memorializing Pearl Harbor examines the challenge of representing history at the site of the attack that brought America into World War II. Analyzing moments in which history is re-presented—in commemorative events, documentary films, museum design, and educational programming—Geoffrey M. White shows that the memorial to the Pearl Harbor bombing is not a fixed or singular institution. Rather, it has become a site in which many histories are performed, validated, and challenged. In addition to valorizing military service and sacrifice, the memorial has become a place where Japanese veterans have come to seek recognition and reconciliation, where Japanese Americans have sought to correct narratives of racial mistrust, and where Native Hawaiians have challenged their ongoing erasure from their own land. Drawing on extended ethnographic fieldwork, White maps these struggles onto larger controversies about public history, museum practices, and national memory.
Download or read book WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument Visitor Center Development written by United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book War Memories Imperial Ambitions written by Rusty Ray Bartels and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project argues that the National Park Service (NPS) functions as an agent of the state in perpetuating American imperialism throughout the Pacific World through presenting WWII narratives of sacrifice as worthy of inclusion into the nation. These narratives, I argue, reinforce American occupation in islands and regions that have contested relations to the nation. This project is informed by scholarship in rhetorical criticism of public memory and in American Studies analyses of the nation as an empire. Methodologically, I have combined fieldwork at each park site and official public interpretive materials, with historical archives related to the formation, design, and management of the parks to understand the relationship between past and present. Part I of this project examines War in the Pacific National Historical Park in the American territory of Guam and American Memorial Park in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. I focus my argument here on how NPS narratives of WWII cannot be separated from historical and contemporary American military interests in the Mariana Islands and the Pacific World. Part II approaches the three units of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument in Hawai'i, Alaska, and California, with each state's focus, development, and accessibility being appreciably different. I argue that all are concerned with the legacies of militarized land use and narratives of sacrifice for and belonging to the nation.
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Download or read book World War II The Pacific written by David Horner and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the action in the Pacific theater of World War II, focusing on the confrontation between the United States and Japan.
Download or read book All the Gallant Men written by Donald Stratton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling memoir of survival and heroism at Pearl Harbor “An unforgettable story of unfathomable courage.” —Reader’s Digest In this, the first memoir by a USS Arizona sailor, Donald Stratton delivers an inspiring and unforgettable eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack and his remarkable return to the fight. At 8:10 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Class Donald Stratton was consumed by an inferno. A million pounds of explosives had detonated beneath his battle station aboard the USS Arizona, barely fifteen minutes into Japan’s surprise attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor. Near death and burned across two thirds of his body, Don, a nineteen-year-old Nebraskan who had been steeled by the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, summoned the will to haul himself hand over hand across a rope tethered to a neighboring vessel. Forty-five feet below, the harbor’s flaming, oil-slick water boiled with enemy bullets; all around him the world tore itself apart. In this extraordinary, never-before-told eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack—the only memoir ever written by a survivor of the USS Arizona—ninety-four-year-old veteran Donald Stratton finally shares his unforgettable personal tale of bravery and survival on December 7, 1941, his harrowing recovery, and his inspiring determination to return to the fight. Don and four other sailors made it safely across the same line that morning, a small miracle on a day that claimed the lives of 1,177 of their Arizona shipmates—approximately half the American fatalaties at Pearl Harbor. Sent to military hospitals for a year, Don refused doctors’ advice to amputate his limbs and battled to relearn how to walk. The U.S. Navy gave him a medical discharge, believing he would never again be fit for service, but Don had unfinished business. In June 1944, he sailed back into the teeth of the Pacific War on a destroyer, destined for combat in the crucial battles of Leyte Gulf, Luzon, and Okinawa, thus earning the distinction of having been present for the opening shots and the final major battle of America’s Second World War. As the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack approaches, Don, a great-grandfather of five and one of six living survivors of the Arizona, offers an unprecedentedly intimate reflection on the tragedy that drew America into the greatest armed conflict in history. All the Gallant Men is a book for the ages, one of the most remarkable—and remarkably inspiring—memoirs of any kind to appear in recent years. *Library Journal
Download or read book Pacific Island Battlegrounds of World War II written by Earl R. Hinz and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights decisive WWII military operations in Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia, and their effects on the islands. Illustrations, maps, and index.
Download or read book Pearl Harbor Encyclopedia Part 2 December 7 1941 Day of Infamy Japan Plans Detailed Attack Information Controversies FDR and World War II USS Arizona Memorial Real Life Oral Histories written by Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the fascinating stories and tragic history of Pearl Harbor - America's Day of Infamy, December 7th, 1941. Presented in paperback in two parts because of its massive content, with twenty-five chapters and thousands of pages of text and photographs, this unique and comprehensive compilation of official information provides a stunning, richly detailed overview of all aspects of this incredible event.There are extensive oral histories from the survivors, explanations of the Japanese preparations for the sneak attack, thoughtful discussions of the controversies about what the Roosevelt Administration knew about the attack, a complete list of the heroes who gave their lives, thorough coverage of the history of the USS Arizona memorial, and full details of Navy, Marine, and Coast Guard involvement. Reports from the commanding officers of every ship at Pearl Harbor are included as well.Contents:PAPERBACK BOOK PART 1Section 1: Overview of the Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941 * Section 2: Narratives of Commanding Officers * Section 3: Pearl Harbor Additional Action Reports, 7 Dec 1941 * Section 4: The Attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941: A Study of Defending America * Section 5: Excerpt from Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal: History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II - Volume I * Section 6: Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Notable Senate Investigations, U.S. Senate Historical Office, Washington, D.C. * Section 7: Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan (1941) * Section 8: USS Arizona Memorial Historic Resource Study (Unique Analysis of Pearl Harbor Attack) * Section 9: Infamous Day - Marines at Pearl Harbor * Section 10: Coast Guard Units in Hawaii * Section 11: FDR and Pearl Harbor * Section 12: Pearl Harbor Revisited: United States Navy Communications Intelligence 1924-1941 * Section 13: What Every Cryptologist Should Know about Pearl HarborPAPERBACK BOOK PART 2Section 14: Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941 - Overview * Section 15: Remembering Pearl Harbor * Section 16: USS Arizona (BB-39) Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii * Section 16B - Complete List of the Heroes: Casualties of Pearl Harbor * Section 17: USS Arizona Memorial * Section 18: The USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center - An Administrative and Legislative History * Section 19: USS Arizona (BB-39) Wreck National Historic Landmark Study * Section 20: USS Arizona Memorial Submerged Cultural Resources Study, USS Arizona and Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark * Section 21: The U.S. Navy in Hawaii, 1826-1945, An Administrative History * Section 22: National Park Service World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument * Section 23: Salvage Diary Excerpt * Section 24: U.S. Navy Abbreviations of World War II and U.S. Navy Code Words of World War II
Download or read book The World War II Memorial written by Douglas Brinkley and published by Harper Paperbacks. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 2004, the sixtieth anniversary year of D-Day, the nation paid tribute to its World War II heroes with the dedication of a memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. This beautifully illustrated keepsake offers a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the memorial and its place in American history. Exclusive photographs show the memorial in all stages of development, accompanied by text exploring the symbolism of each part -- the Rainbow Pool, the Wall of Remembrance, the Field of Stars, the Freedom Wall, and the Pillars of the States and Territories. George H. W. Bush, former senator Bob Dole, Yogi Berra, and other veterans share their personal stories, and leading military historians contribute essays on the war efforts at home and abroad. Like the memorial it commemorates, this book pays tribute to the "greatest generation" -- the everyday Americans who rose up to defend our freedom.
Download or read book Pearl Harbor Encyclopedia Part 1 December 7 1941 Day of Infamy Japan Plans Detailed Attack Information Controversies FDR and World War II USS Arizona Memorial Real Life Oral Histories written by Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the fascinating stories and tragic history of Pearl Harbor - America's Day of Infamy, December 7th, 1941. Presented in paperback in two parts because of its massive content, with twenty-five chapters and thousands of pages of text and photographs, this unique and comprehensive compilation of official information provides a stunning, richly detailed overview of all aspects of this incredible event.There are extensive oral histories from the survivors, explanations of the Japanese preparations for the sneak attack, thoughtful discussions of the controversies about what the Roosevelt Administration knew about the attack, a complete list of the heroes who gave their lives, thorough coverage of the history of the USS Arizona memorial, and full details of Navy, Marine, and Coast Guard involvement. Reports from the commanding officers of every ship at Pearl Harbor are included as well.Contents:PAPERBACK BOOK PART 1Section 1: Overview of the Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941 * Section 2: Narratives of Commanding Officers * Section 3: Pearl Harbor Additional Action Reports, 7 Dec 1941 * Section 4: The Attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941: A Study of Defending America * Section 5: Excerpt from Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal: History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II - Volume I * Section 6: Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Notable Senate Investigations, U.S. Senate Historical Office, Washington, D.C. * Section 7: Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan (1941) * Section 8: USS Arizona Memorial Historic Resource Study (Unique Analysis of Pearl Harbor Attack) * Section 9: Infamous Day - Marines at Pearl Harbor * Section 10: Coast Guard Units in Hawaii * Section 11: FDR and Pearl Harbor * Section 12: Pearl Harbor Revisited: United States Navy Communications Intelligence 1924-1941 * Section 13: What Every Cryptologist Should Know about Pearl HarborPAPERBACK BOOK PART 2Section 14: Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941 - Overview * Section 15: Remembering Pearl Harbor * Section 16: USS Arizona (BB-39) Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii * Section 16B - Complete List of the Heroes: Casualties of Pearl Harbor * Section 17: USS Arizona Memorial * Section 18: The USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center - An Administrative and Legislative History * Section 19: USS Arizona (BB-39) Wreck National Historic Landmark Study * Section 20: USS Arizona Memorial Submerged Cultural Resources Study, USS Arizona and Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark * Section 21: The U.S. Navy in Hawaii, 1826-1945, An Administrative History * Section 22: National Park Service World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument * Section 23: Salvage Diary Excerpt * Section 24: U.S. Navy Abbreviations of World War II and U.S. Navy Code Words of World War II
