Charlie and Priscilla

By Robert Williamson

This is the story of Charlie Scott and Priscilla LeVasseur, a couple of kids who move to Washington, DC in the early '40's. They weren't alone. President Roosevelt's ambitious social agenda generated numerous agencies, which needed people to run them. Young people flocked to the city in search of a life better than the one their parents had. Charlie and Priscilla were like the others. They made new friends, found some boys and girls to date, and lived a swell life. In the summer of 1943, Charlie enlisted as a Marine. His first assignment was as a guard at the Navy Yard, where Priscilla worked as a secretary. Thus began a love affair between a Baptist boy from North Carolina and a Roman Catholic girl from Maine. Unlikely as it seems, this was a union made in heaven. Their courtship was disturbed in the summer of 1944, when Charlie left to train on the island of Guadalcanal, where he would join the Sixth Marine Division. On April 1st of 1945, they fought the Battle for Okinawa, the last island to be captured before the invasion of Japan. Historians will record it as the bloodiest battle of the war. Twenty-eight hundred Marines died on Okinawa. This is about a boy who survived and a girl who loved him.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F62MZXVH
• ISBN13: 9798280188396
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 405 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.9" x 5.3"