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The mosquito bowl : a game of life and death in World War II / by Bissinger, Buzz,1954-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity. As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps. Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war - the invasion of Okinawa--their ranks included one of the greatest pools of football talent ever assembled: Former All Americans, captains from Wisconsin and Brown and Notre Dame, and nearly twenty men who were either drafted or would ultimately play in the NFL. When the trash-talking between the 4th and 29th over who had the better football team reached a fever pitch, it was decided: The two regiments would play each other in a football game as close to the real thing as you could get in the dirt and coral of Guadalcanal. The bruising and bloody game that followed became known as "The Mosquito Bowl." Within a matter of months, 15 of the 65 players in "The Mosquito Bowl" would be killed at Okinawa, by far the largest number of American athletes ever to die in a single battle. The Mosquito Bowl is the story of these brave and beautiful young men, those who survived and those who did not. It is the story of the families and the landscape that shaped them. It is a story of a far more innocent time in both college athletics and the life of the country, and of the loss of that innocence. Writing with the style and rigor that won him a Pulitzer Prize and have made several of his books modern classics, Buzz Bissinger takes us from the playing fields of America's campuses where boys played at being Marines, to the final time they were allowed to still be boys on that field of dirt and coral, to the darkest and deadliest days that followed at Okinawa." --publisher's website.
Subjects: Biographies.; Informational works.; Personal narratives.; United States. Marine Corps; Football players; Football; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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The liberator [sound recording] / by Kershaw, Alex.; Sanders, Fred.;
Read by Fred Sanders.
Subjects: Sparks, Felix Laurence, 1917-2007.; United States. Army; United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 157th. Battalion, 3rd.; Audiobooks.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
© p2012., Random House Audio,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Life as a combat soldier / by Williams, Brian,1943-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 31) and index.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Military history, Modern; Soldiers;
© 2006., Heinemann Library,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Heard amid the guns : true stories from the Western Front, 1914-1918 / by Carmichael, Jacqueline Larson,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918.; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918;
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Juno : Canadians at D-Day, June 6, 1944 / by Barris, Ted;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Canada. Canadian Army; World War, 1939-1945;
© c2004., T. Allen Publishers,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fields of fire : the Canadians in Normandy / by Copp, Terry,1938-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Canada. Canadian Army; World War, 1939-1945;
© c2003., University of Toronto Press,
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Holding Juno : Canada's heroic defence of the D-Day beaches, June 7-12, 1944 / by Zuehlke, Mark.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-409) and indexes.
Subjects: Canada. Canadian Army; World War, 1939-1945;
© c2005., Douglas & McIntyre,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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On Juno Beach : Canada's D-Day heroes / by Brewster, Hugh.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Canada. Canadian Army;
© c2004., Scholastic Canada,
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Brothers down : Pearl Harbor and the fate of the many brothers aboard the USS Arizona / by Borneman, Walter R.,1952-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-322) and index.The surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 remains one of the most traumatic events in American history. America's battleship fleet was crippled, thousands of lives were lost, and the United States was propelled into a world war. Few realize that aboard the iconic, ill-fated USS Arizona were an incredible 79 blood relatives. Tragically, in an era when family members serving together was an accepted, even encouraged, practice, sixty-three of the Arizona's 1,177 dead turned out to be brothers. In Brothers Down, acclaimed historian Walter R. Borneman returns to that critical week of December, masterfully guiding us on an unforgettable journey of sacrifice and heroism, all told through the lives of these brothers and their fateful experience on the Arizona. Weaving in the heartbreaking stories of the parents, wives, and sweethearts who wrote to and worried about these men, Borneman draws from a treasure trove of unpublished source material to bring to vivid life the minor decisions that became a matter of life or death when the bombs began to fall. More than just an account of familial bonds and national heartbreak, what emerges promises to define a turning point in American military history.
Subjects: Arizona (Battleship); Brothers.; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.; World War, 1939-1945;
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D-day [sound recording (CD)] : the Battle for Normandy / by Beevor, Antony,1946-; Stewart, Cameron.;
Subjects: Audiobooks.; World War, 1939-1945;
© p2009., Penguin Audio,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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