Remembering: Stories from the World War II Pacific

By: Jackson, Jerry

Book Overview

This book makes the ideal gift for family, friends and World War II buffs. It also is a wonderful tool for our children to learn about a significant time in our history from these heroic stories and people. These are first-person accounts by average young Americans. These people of the 1940's typically left their farms, factories and universities to serve our country in the World War II Pacific. In the process, they became anything but average. It is a historically accurate accounting. It is also a testament to the sacrifices made by young Americans as revealed in their accounts of the "Greatest Conflict Known To Mankind". These retellings take the reader from the beginning of the United States involvement in the war with the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, to the end with the American Occupation of Japan. Through the unfolding of the stories, readers will discover or gain a greater appreciation of how our fighting men and women protected us against the foreign invaders. If successful, this was an enemy that would have enslaved the world. The book is patriotism at it's very best and will leave the reader feeling proud to be an American.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142084069X
• ISBN13: 9781420840698
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

REMEMBERING: STORIES FROM THE WORLD WAR 2 PACIFIC

HEARING THEIR WORDS Although I was only in grammar school during World War Two; I have always considered that event to be the most important occurrence in modern human history; effecting all human beings on this planet, including-by way of example-natives with blowguns in darkest Africa to Eskimos on the frozen Artic Ocean, hunting whales for their maktak. I remember hearing a Lockheed aircraft worker, my next door neighbor, saying at the time, "Everyone in the world is looking over their shoulder." My interest in the war-on and around the Pacific Ocean-was triggered by my older brother who enlisted when I was eight years old in the Navy and was being trained in PBYs (my favorite classic aircraft), for duty in that theater of the war. Thus I was ready to buy when I saw the new title, REMEMBERING: STORIES FROM THE WORLD WAR TWO PACIFIC. I was ready to buy the book, and I wanted the hard cover with the picture of General Douglas Macarthur. So, when I scrutinized this brand new book by the author Jerry Jackson and read in the, "ABOUT THE AUTHER;" inside cover material; that he lives in Malibu Beach, California; my favorite beach as a teen; I thought `bingo,' my brother; PBYs and Malibu Beach; those are all good-luck reasons why this book will turn out to be, a great-read- book, and I have a feeling that it will be read over and over. After the purchase; what I found great about this book is that instead of hearing the author's opinions throughout; he brings out the best tales and words from the mouths of the serviceman who were there. As an example; these words are that of an eighteen year old boy (Bob White), words remembered from 1941. "Not only did she look like a scow, but the odor coming from her was almost unbearable." (A few sentences later), "After recovering from the seasickness I was no longer aware of the odor of the ship ever again." I could go on with other similar examples, but why ruin a delightful read? What was invigorating to me was the variety of the true, `first-person stories.' I will skip around the table-of-contents and list just a few of them next. THE SINKING OF THE USS NECHES THE BATAAN DEATH MARCH A NAVAAJO CODE TALKER LANDS ON IWO JIMA AN ARMY NURSE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC 1942 - 1945 `FIRE!!!' `ABANDON SHIP'. And many others. What I loved about this small treasure, is that when traveling or just around the pool, I can pull out this great book and not have to slide back into a continuous narrative, but pick a true story to relive in it's entirety. And if I have time, read another. I recommend this book highly and wish there were more like it.