Uncommon Valor was a Common Virtue
Uncommon Valor was a Common Virtueis an historical account of Ball Ground, Georgia, during the Great Depression and World War II eras.
Meticulously researched, it traces the lives of many of the more than 300 boys with Ball Ground addresses who served during the Second World
War, including seven who gave the ultimate sacrifice never to return home alive.
At the very beginning of the war, Ball Ground boys were at Pearl Harbor on the "Day of Infamy, 11 December 7, 1941, and at war's end, they were on board the USS Missouri on September 2, 1944, when the Japanese signed the documents of surrender.
Throughout the war, they served in the European Theater of Operations at Kasserine Pass, Salerno, Monte Cassino, Anzio, Normandy, and in the Battle of the Bulge; they were sailors who were on warships in the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Mediterranean; they were airmen who were bomber crew members and fighter pilots fighting in the skies over both Europe and the Pacific; and they were Marines and soldiers who fought in the Pacific on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Bougainville, the Philippines, and Okinawa. Ball Ground was represented in almost every major World War II battle and served in all of the various theaters across the globe.
Yet, wherever they served, they served honorably and heroically.
An informative, educational, but easy-to-read narrative in novel form, Uncommon Valor was a Common Virtue also contains more than 180 vintage photographs from archives and private family collections. The book is a "must-read" for those who are interested in the historical aspects of the Second World War.
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