This memoir is an intimate and sometimes irreverent account of one man's coming of age during World War II. Born a North Carolina farmboy, Jones served as a U.S. Navy sonarman aboard a wooden submarine chaser operating from Africa and Sicily during the Allied invasions at Anzio and Southern France. He also served as sonarman and yeoman on two fleet mine sweepers in the Okinawa, Formosa and China operations. This memoir is drawn not only from memory, but from the author's surviving diaries from the conflicts, daily logs of the three ships upon which he served, and the secret reports of military commanders and other official records.…mehr
This memoir is an intimate and sometimes irreverent account of one man's coming of age during World War II. Born a North Carolina farmboy, Jones served as a U.S. Navy sonarman aboard a wooden submarine chaser operating from Africa and Sicily during the Allied invasions at Anzio and Southern France. He also served as sonarman and yeoman on two fleet mine sweepers in the Okinawa, Formosa and China operations. This memoir is drawn not only from memory, but from the author's surviving diaries from the conflicts, daily logs of the three ships upon which he served, and the secret reports of military commanders and other official records.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
H.G. Jones (Ph.D. Duke) has served as a history professor in several universities; state archivist and director of the North Carolina Department of Archives and History; and curator of the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His career was capped in 2002 with the North Carolina Award for Public Service, the state's highest civilian recognition. He lives in Pittsboro.
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Table of Contents Preface 1. The Agony of Waiting December 1941 -September 1942 2. "You're in the Navy Now" September-December 1942 3. Farm Boy in the Big Apple December 24, 1942-March 4, 1943 4. Introduction to Africa: French Morocco March-August 1943 5. Closer to the Front: Algeria and Tunisia August-December 1943 6. Agony at Anzio January 1944 7. "No-Hands Ward Ambassador" January-March 1944 8. Cinq-Deux-Cinq While I Was Away January 26-March 10, 1944 9. Back Aboard, Back to Anzio March-July 1944 10. Attacking the "Soft Underbelly" of Europe July-September 1944 11. Another Side of War: Ashore in Sicily, Italy, Corsica and France January-September 1944 12. Back to the "Good Ole U.S. of A." September-November 1944 13. Stateside Interlude: Norfolk and Panama December 1944-March 1945 14. Hiatus: California and Hawaii. March-June 1945 15. Bloody Okinawa June-August 1945 16. Finishing Off the Japanese August-October 1945 17. Formosa, China, and Japan Again November 1945-January 1946 18. The Long Way Home January-March 1946 Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Preface 1. The Agony of Waiting December 1941 -September 1942 2. "You're in the Navy Now" September-December 1942 3. Farm Boy in the Big Apple December 24, 1942-March 4, 1943 4. Introduction to Africa: French Morocco March-August 1943 5. Closer to the Front: Algeria and Tunisia August-December 1943 6. Agony at Anzio January 1944 7. "No-Hands Ward Ambassador" January-March 1944 8. Cinq-Deux-Cinq While I Was Away January 26-March 10, 1944 9. Back Aboard, Back to Anzio March-July 1944 10. Attacking the "Soft Underbelly" of Europe July-September 1944 11. Another Side of War: Ashore in Sicily, Italy, Corsica and France January-September 1944 12. Back to the "Good Ole U.S. of A." September-November 1944 13. Stateside Interlude: Norfolk and Panama December 1944-March 1945 14. Hiatus: California and Hawaii. March-June 1945 15. Bloody Okinawa June-August 1945 16. Finishing Off the Japanese August-October 1945 17. Formosa, China, and Japan Again November 1945-January 1946 18. The Long Way Home January-March 1946 Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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