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Book Redlands in World War I

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  • Author : Ann Cordy Deegan
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2017-02-06
  • ISBN : 1439659559
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Redlands in World War I written by Ann Cordy Deegan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon declaration of war on April 6, 1917, Redlands mobilized immediately. The local National Guard Company G departed on April 4 to Arcadia and quickly relocated to San Diego. Residents worked to establish a chapter of the American Red Cross and formed war committees through the YMCA, YWCA and Salvation Army. Thousands of residents pulled together to serve the war at home, donating their time and orchestrating bond drives. More than eight hundred locals served in the military, and Redlanders could be found fighting in every major battle involving American troops. Thirty-nine men and one woman made the ultimate sacrifice. This book commemorates the community's perseverance and sacrifices during the Great War.

Book Remembering Them

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-04-19
  • ISBN : 9780646953502
  • Pages : 92 pages

Download or read book Remembering Them written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book came about as part of the centenary commemoration of the First World War.It was designed to provide our community with the opportunity to commemorate the role ourRedlands citizens played in Australia's First World War effort.This project is the result of a collaborative effort from several individuals and organisations.Our goal is to bring together photographs and biographical information to ensure that ourlocal soldiers and nurses, especially those who lost their lives, are remembered as real peopleand not merely anonymous names in a list.We have attempted to include the stories of those who had a connection to the Redlands insome way. This book includes people who were born here, worked here at the time of theirenlistment, or had their names added to our cenotaphs at the request of their next of kin wholived in the Redlands.Despite our best efforts, there are names listed on our cenotaphs for whom we cannot find aclear link to the Redlands. We are aware that this is not an exhaustive representation and wetrust more information will become available that will enable us to further understand theimpact of the First World War on this community. It was not possible to include all those whomay have lived in the Redlands after the war, but we have chosen to include some who settledhere and became actively engaged in the community.This publication contains stories from the First World War era that may offend some readers.Redland Libraries would like to thank the wide range of community groups and organisationsfor contributing information and artefacts for this publication, with special thanks to localauthor Peter Ludlow and the North Stradbroke Island Historical Museum.Our thanks, too, to the many people who contributed images to this book, especially thefamilies of soldiers who shared their memories, stories and photographs. Where possible,contributors' names have been included beneath the captions, although they may not becopyright holders. While we have taken care to include every name we can, we were not ableto trace sources for every image.

Book World War II Commemorations in Redlands

Download or read book World War II Commemorations in Redlands written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Veteran of World War II at the University of Redlands

Download or read book The Veteran of World War II at the University of Redlands written by Edmund R. Woodside and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Red Dust

Download or read book Red Dust written by Donald Black and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait of war There are books which report the experience of war and then there are a few that enable the reader to step into another's life to share war, both in the mind and the flesh. Red Dust is such a book. Written by a trooper of the Australian Light Horse on campaign in the Middle East during the Great War against the Ottoman Turkish empire it tells of 'mateship, ' hard campaigning and brutal conflict-often hand to hand and described in relentless detail. It also allows the reader to share the thoughts of this ordinary man-a man of his time and his country-as he struggles to rationalise the horror and futility of war, his feelings on the loss of comrades, the embryonic sense of otherness from the Imperial motherland and the loss of youth. The action takes place principally in the Jordon Valley in Palestine-a grinding stalemate of a phase in what was often one of fluid manoeuvre. Here the troops experienced fiercely hot days, freezing nights, scorpions and spiders and the ever present threat of the tenacious and respected enemy. Red Dust is a rare book in every sense and will be sure to reward all those interested in the First World War and fine writing.

Book World War II and the West It Wrought

Download or read book World War II and the West It Wrought written by Mark Brilliant and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few episodes in American history were more transformative than World War II, and in no region did it bring greater change than in the West. Having lifted the United States out of the Great Depression, World War II set in motion a massive westward population movement, ignited a quarter-century boom that redefined the West as the nation's most economically dynamic region, and triggered unprecedented public investment in manufacturing, education, scientific research, and infrastructure—an economic revolution that would lay the groundwork for prodigiously innovative high-tech centers in Silicon Valley, the Puget Sound area, and elsewhere. Amidst robust economic growth and widely shared prosperity in the post-war decades, Westerners made significant strides toward greater racial and gender equality, even as they struggled to manage the environmental consequences of their region's surging vitality. At the same time, wartime policies that facilitated the federal withdrawal of Western public lands and the occupation of Pacific islands for military use continued an ongoing project of U.S. expansionism at home and abroad. This volume explores the lasting consequences of a pivotal chapter in U.S. history, and offers new categories for understanding the post-war West. Contributors to this volume include Mark Brilliant, Geraldo L. Cadava, Matthew Dallek, Mary L. Dudziak, Jared Farmer, David M. Kennedy, Daniel J. Kevles, Rebecca Jo Plant, Gavin Wright, and Richard White.

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1294 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book Redlands

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  • Author : Larry E. Burgess
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780738528830
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Redlands written by Larry E. Burgess and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The home of sunshine, snow-capped mountains, and oranges, Redlands is the model city of the Southern California dream. Founded by two Easterners seeking "health, pleasure, and residence," this jewel of the Inland Empire grew to become the center of a worldwide citrus empire. Both navel oranges and visitors flourished in the warm, dry climate, each nourishing the wealth and philanthropy that would become the hallmark of Redlands. At the industry's zenith, more than two dozen packing houses shipped the golden fruit around the world. Money also grew in orange groves that carpeted the area. Citizens proudly watched as monuments, parks, homes, and buildings blossomed, beautifying the town and giving physical form to the generous local character. Through the years, a unique sense of philanthropy and community improvement, begun by the Smiley Brothers, proved infectious to the town spirit, and remains a guiding source of inspiration today.

Book Marines

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book Marines written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Who s who in California

Download or read book Who s who in California written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Americana Annual

Download or read book The Americana Annual written by Alexander Hopkins McDannald and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Who s who in North Carolina

Download or read book Who s who in North Carolina written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Asians and Pacific Islanders in American Football

Download or read book Asians and Pacific Islanders in American Football written by Joel S. Franks and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light on experiences relatively underrepresented in academic and non-academic sport history. It examines how Asian and Pacific Islander peoples used American football to maintain a sense of community while encountering racial exclusion, labor exploitation, and colonialism. Through their participation and spectatorship in American football, Asian and Pacific Islander people crossed treacherous cultural frontiers to construct what sociologist Elijah Anderson has called a cosmopolitan canopy under which Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and people of diverse racial and ethnic identities interacted with at least a semblance of respect and equity. And perhaps a surprising number of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have excelled in college and even professional football before the 1960s. Finally, acknowledging the impressive influx of elite Pacific Islander gridders who surfaced in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, it is vital to note as well the racialized nativism shadowing the lives of these athletes.

Book Los Angeles in the 1930s

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  • Author : WPA Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Southern California
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2011-04-05
  • ISBN : 0520268830
  • Pages : 584 pages

Download or read book Los Angeles in the 1930s written by WPA Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Southern California and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published: New York: Hastings House, 1941, under the title Los Angeles: a guide to the city and its environs, as part of the American guide series.

Book Los Angeles

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  • Author : Best Books on
  • Publisher : Best Books on
  • Release : 1941
  • ISBN : 1623760534
  • Pages : 566 pages

Download or read book Los Angeles written by Best Books on and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1941 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration ; introduction by David Kipen.

Book Famous Americans

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  • Author : Victor J. Danilov
  • Publisher : Scarecrow Press
  • Release : 2013-09-26
  • ISBN : 0810891867
  • Pages : 457 pages

Download or read book Famous Americans written by Victor J. Danilov and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People who are considered “famous” can be found in many different fields. This book describes 472 museums, historic sites, and memorials about 409 people in 26 categories: Actors Explorers Playwrights Architects First Ladies Poets Artists/Sculptors Frontiersmen Presidents Athletes Journalists/Publishers Public Officials/ Author/Writers Medical Innovators Political Figures Aviators/Astronauts Military Figures Religious Leaders Business/Industrial/Financial Musicians/Singers/ Scientists/Engineers/ Figures Composers Inventors Educators Outlaws Social Activists Entertainers Patriotic Figures Socialites They include such people as Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Georgia O’Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, Sinclair Lewis, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Will Rogers, Daniel Boone, Buffalo Bill Cody, William Randolph Hearst, Douglas MacArthur, Robert E. Lee, Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, Betsy Ross, Carl Sandburg, Jesse James, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, Billy Graham, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jane Addams, Frederick Douglass, Doris Duke, Helen Keller, Wilbur and Orville Wright, and all the Presidents, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Among the sites of the museums and other tributes are such places as the Katharine Hepburn Museum, Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio, Babe Ruth Museum, Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, Mark Twain House and Museum, Charles A. Lindberg Historic Site, Lincoln Memorial, Morgan Library and Museum, Kit Carson Home and Museum, Clara Barton National Historic Site, Stonewall Jackson’s Home, Marian Anderson Residence/Museum and Birthplace, Stephen Foster Memorial Museum, Tennessee Williams Birthplace/Home, Mount Vernon: George Washington’s Estate and Gardens, Roger Williams National Memorial, Rachel Carson Homestead, Rosa Parks Library and Museum, and Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum. In addition to the chapters and directory, the book includes a geographical guide to the sites, selected bibliography, index, and 29 photographs.