Historic Rock Island County
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Page : 674 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Rock Island County (Ill.)
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Page : 674 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Rock Island County (Ill.)
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Page : 502 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Rock Island County (Ill.)
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 25,63 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Illinois
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Page : 414 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Rock Island County (Ill.)
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Page : 444 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 1993-11-01
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ISBN : 9780832835261
Author : Rock Island Ill Kramer & Company
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 2018-10-12
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ISBN : 9780342553792
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Page : 480 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Rock Island County (Ill.)
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Author : Henry L. Kiner
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Page : 544 pages
File Size : 16,94 MB
Release : 1910
Category : History
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Author : Marc Wilson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080618664X
The first book-length account of a story too long overlooked Claro Solis wanted to win a gold star for his mother. He succeeded—as did seven other sons of “Little Mexico.” Second Street in Silvis, Illinois, was a poor neighborhood during the Great Depression that had become home to Mexicans fleeing revolution in their homeland. In 1971 it was officially renamed “Hero Street” to commemorate its claim to the highest per-capita casualty rate from any neighborhood during World War II. Marc Wilson now tells the story of this community and the young men it sent to fight for their adopted country. Hero Street, U.S.A. is the first book to recount a saga too long overlooked in histories and television documentaries. Interweaving family memories, soldiers’ letters, historical photographs, interviews with relatives, and firsthand combat accounts, Wilson tells the compelling stories of nearly eighty men from three dozen Second Street homes who volunteered to fight for their country in World War II and Korea—and of the eight, including Claro Solis, who never came back. As debate swirls around the place of Mexican immigrants in contemporary American society, this book shows the price of citizenship willingly paid by the sons of earlier refugees. With Hero Street, U.S.A., Marc Wilson not only makes an important contribution to military and social history but also acknowledges the efforts of the heroes of Second Street to realize the American dream.
Author : Charles Bent
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Page : 550 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Whiteside County (Ill.)
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