Book Description
Nashville's World War II veterans share their experiences in their own voices. Veterans describe events, people, and places during the African Theater of Operations and the European Theater of Operations.
Author : James B Jones Jr
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 2016-07-19
Category :
ISBN : 9781513260174
Nashville's World War II veterans share their experiences in their own voices. Veterans describe events, people, and places during the African Theater of Operations and the European Theater of Operations.
Author : James Jones Jr
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 25,52 MB
Release : 2016-07-23
Category :
ISBN : 9781513260181
Nashville's World War II veterans share their experiences in their own voices. Veterans describe events, people, and places in China, Burma, and India and the Pacific Theater. Taken from the Veterans History Project a the Nashville Public Library.
Author : James B Jones Jr
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 2016-07-19
Category :
ISBN : 9781513260143
Nashville's World War II veterans share their experiences in their own voices. Veterans describe events, people, and places during the Great Depression, during their training, and during the American Theater of Operations.
Author : Randall Baxter
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1491803789
The Veteran Next Door is a compilation of stories from the Nationally broadcast radio show of the same name. The stories are from survivors of World War II. From a Jewish girl being given away at age 2 to save her from Auschwitz, fighting in Bougainville, and Guadalcanal, the experience of being black in our army and navy during this time period. From love stories to fighting across Europe and even being captured on the first day of the Battle of the Bulge, seeing the new German jets shoot down the B-17 flying in front of your own Flying Fortress, earning as many medals as Audie Murphy and not being awarded the Medal of Honor, and being surrounded by sharks for 5 days, being on board a ship that is breaking in half in a typhoon. And coming home to a small Tennessee county that has been taken over by a corrupt political machine. All true stories about our Veterans of World War II, their heartbreaks, and their accomplishments told by the Veterans themselves.
Author : Robert Guy Spinney
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9781572330047
In addition to examining Nashville's public-sector expansion, Spinney explores the war's impact on the Nashville economy, the role of organized labor in the city, race relations and the politicization of the black leadership, changing attitudes within the local Jewish community, and civil defense activities. An introductory chapter surveys Nashville's experience in the decade prior to the war.
Author : DeKalb County Genealogical Society (Tenn.)
Publisher :
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 2005
Category : DeKalb County (Tenn.)
ISBN :
Author : Barbara Whitaker
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
Release : 2016-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1509210911
Seeking adventure, shy Kitty Greenlee joins the Women’s Army Corps. In 1944 England, as secretarial support to the 8th Air Force, she encounters her dream man, a handsome lieutenant who only has eyes for her blonde friend. Uncomfortable around men, Kitty doesn’t think the handsome officer could want someone like her. Recovering from wounds, Ted Kruger wants to forget about losing his closest friends and have fun before returning to danger as a bomber navigator. When Ted recognizes Kitty as the girl who rescued him two years before, he must choose between dating the sexy blonde or pursuing quiet, serious-minded Kitty even though he knows he’s not nearly good enough for her. As the war gears up with the D-Day invasion, will Kitty and Ted risk their hearts as well as their lives?
Author : Middle Tennessee WWII Fighter Pilots Association
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fighter pilots
ISBN : 9780070016491
From bailouts to belly landings, flaming cockpits to lurching carrier decks, here are the heoic tales of pilots from all backgrounds, united by a desire to fight their country's enemy to the finish. Drawn from a small corner of Tennessee, these men flew in all theatres of combat, in every front-line fighter aircraft. They soared to victory in the air--and fled from capture on the ground. This is a memorable anthhology of combat tales with great appeal both for veterans and historians.
Author : Edward C. Kramer
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 2010-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1453502645
I have been an advocate for WWII veterans recording their experiences for future generations for many years. I believe generations to come need to know what cost and sacrifice these men and women endured to protect our country and world. They sacrificed years of their lives and many gave their lives for our country. Most veterans look back on their experiences in the military as building blocks for the rest of their lives. I believe that each veteran is a library, and when that veteran is gone, it is like the library is burned.
Author : Sarah Sundin
Publisher : Revell
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1493421298
In 1943, Private Clay Paxton trains hard with the US Army Rangers at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, determined to do his best in the upcoming Allied invasion of France. With his future stolen by his brothers' betrayal, Clay has only one thing to live for--fulfilling the recurring dream of his death. Leah Jones works as a librarian at Camp Forrest, longing to rise above her orphanage upbringing and belong to the community, even as she uses her spare time to search for her real family--the baby sisters she was separated from so long ago. After Clay saves Leah's life from a brutal attack, he saves her virtue with a marriage of convenience. When he ships out to train in England for D-day, their letters bind them together over the distance. But can a love strong enough to overcome death grow between them before Clay's recurring dream comes true?