Goldfish Silver Boot The Story Of A World War Ii Prisoner Of War

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Goldfish Silver Boot - The Story of a World War II Prisoner of War

Author : Harvey S. Horn
Publisher : Fortis Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780984551194
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Goldfish Silver Boot - The Story of a World War II Prisoner of War written by Harvey S. Horn and published by Fortis Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Harvey S. Horn. My story is about 36 days that changed my life. It is the story of a Jewish boy from Brooklyn who dreamt of flying and enlisted in the Army Air Corps to fight for his country. It is about survival. It is about walking, riding in trolleys, carts, and trains to go from Fiume, Italy to Nuremberg, Germany. It is about war. It is about the resiliency of the human being and the ability of the body to adapt to conditions beyond one's control. It is the story that all POWs keep replaying over and over and over and over. Could I have done more? Could I have done better? Did I perform as trained? Each day was a harrowing experience. I was the navigator in John Lincoln's Crew 11-30. We were attached to the 772nd Bomber Squadron, 463rd Bomber Group, 15th Air Force based in Foggia, Italy. On March 20, 1945, we were assigned to Flying Fortress B-17G "Pretty Baby's Boys." Our mission was to bomb the marshalling yards south of Vienna at Amstettin, Austria. We were hit by flak over Zagreb, Jugoslavia, and had to ditch into Quarnaro Bay off Fiume, Italy (now Rijeka, Croatia). We became prisoners of war of the German Navy. Being captured by the Germans is not the best of times; being Jewish and being captured by the Germans is the worst of times.Flight Officer Harvey S. Horn, 15th Air Force, 463rd Bomber Group, 772nd Bomber Squadron.

True to My God and Country

Author : Françoise S. Ouzan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253068282
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book True to My God and Country written by Françoise S. Ouzan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True to My God and Country explores the role of the more than half a million Jewish American men and women who served in the military in the Second World War. Patriotic Americans determined to fight, they served in every branch of the military and every theater of the war. Drawing on letters, diaries, interviews, and memoirs, True to My God and Country offers an intimate account of the soul-searching carried out by young Jewish men and women in uniform. Ouzan highlights, in particular, the selflessness of servicewomen who risked their lives in dangerous assignments. Many GIs encountered antisemitism in the American military even as they fought the evils of Nazi Germany and its allies. True to My God and Country examines how they coped with anti-Jewish hostility and reveals how their interactions with Jewish communities overseas reinforced and bolstered connections to their own American Jewish identities.

Jewish Aviators in World War II

Author : Bruce H. Wolk
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786499958
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Aviators in World War II written by Bruce H. Wolk and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150,000 American Jews served in the air war during World War II. Despite acts of heroism and commendations, they were subject to bigotry and scorn by their fellow servicemen. Jews were sometimes characterized as disloyal and cowardly, malingering in the slanderous (and non-existent) "Jewish Quartermaster Corps" or sitting out the war in easy assignments. Based on interviews with more than 100 Jewish air veterans, this oral history features the recollections of pilots, crew members and support personnel in all theaters of combat and all branches of the service, including Jewish women of the Women Airforce Service Pilots. The subjects recall their combat experiences, lives as POWs, and anti-Semitism in the ranks, as well as human interest anecdotes such as encounters with the Tuskegee Airmen.

1220 Days

Author : Edmond Joseph Babler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781418408671
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book 1220 Days written by Edmond Joseph Babler and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The true story of U.S. Marine Edmond Babler who was forced to surrender during the early days of the U.S. involvement in World War II when the fortress Island of Corregidor fell to the Japanese. ... this manuscript, transcribed from his own narrative, is Ed's story from the time he joined the Marine Corps until his return from 1,220 days of brutal captivity in Japanese prisoner of war camps."--Cover.

Ritchie Boy Secrets

Author : Beverley Driver Eddy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811769976
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Ritchie Boy Secrets written by Beverley Driver Eddy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1942, the U.S. Army began recruiting immigrants, the children of immigrants, refugees, and others with language skills and knowledge of enemy lands and cultures for a special military intelligence group being trained in the mountains of northern Maryland and sent into Europe and the Pacific. Ultimately, 15,000 men and some women received this specialized training and went on to make vital contributions to victory in World War II. This is their story, which Beverley Driver Eddy tells thoroughly and colorfully, drawing heavily on interviews with surviving Ritchie Boys. The army recruited not just those fluent in German, French, Italian, and Polish (approximately a fifth were Jewish refugees from Europe), but also Arabic, Japanese, Dutch, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Turkish, and other languages—as well as some 200 Native Americans and 200 WACs. They were trained in photo interpretation, terrain analysis, POW interrogation, counterintelligence, espionage, signal intelligence (including pigeons), mapmaking, intelligence gathering, and close combat. Many landed in France on D-Day. Many more fanned out across Europe and around the world completing their missions, often in cooperation with the OSS and Counterintelligence Corps, sometimes on the front lines, often behind the lines. The Ritchie Boys’ intelligence proved vital during the liberation of Paris and the Battle of the Bulge. They helped craft the print and radio propaganda that wore down German homefront morale. If caught, they could have been executed as spies. After the war they translated and interrogated at the Nuremberg trials. One participated in using war criminal Klaus Barbie as an anti-communist agent. Meanwhile, Ritchie Boys in the Pacific Theater of Operations collected intelligence in Burma and China, directed bombing raids in New Guinea and the Philippines, and fought on Okinawa and Iwo Jima. This is a different kind of World War II story, and Eddy tells it with conviction, supported by years of research and interviews.

In Enemy Hands

Author : Claire E. Swedberg
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811751597
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book In Enemy Hands written by Claire E. Swedberg and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal accounts of those taken prisoner during World War II.

Great Escapes of World War II

Author : George Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book Great Escapes of World War II written by George Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True stories of seven daring escapes by prisoners of war during World War II.

1220 Days

Author : Robert C. Daniels
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467054283
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book 1220 Days written by Robert C. Daniels and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The true story of U.S. Marine Edmond Babler who was forced to surrender during the early days of the U.S. involvement in World War II when the fortress Island of Corregidor fell to the Japanese. ... this manuscript, transcribed from his own narrative, is Ed's story from the time he joined the Marine Corps until his return from 1,220 days of brutal captivity in Japanese prisoner of war camps."--Back cover.

Captured!

Author : Kayleen Reusser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732517240
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Captured! written by Kayleen Reusser and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No one can imagine what it is like to be interned in a prison camp for three years, to be beaten and tortured, worked to the point of exhaustion daily and to live in filth and disease. I was one of the few who marched into one of those hellholes and marched out, a survivor."These grim words from a Bataan Death March American soldier tell the true story of what prisoners of war - many of them teens -- experienced from 1941-1945. Other stories in this volume include:The radio operator of a B-17 on a prison ship with 1,800 ill men. Will his sickness prevent him from experiencing liberation?A sailor escaping from his Japanese captors, only to be betrayed back into their hands. Can he summon the fortitude to carry on through months of ill health, back-breaking work, and lack of food?A ball turret gunner who dared to escape, not once but four times from his German camps. Can he get a message to American forces before his prison is bombed?

Living in the Shadow of a Hell Ship

Author : Georgianne Burlage
Publisher : North Texas Military Biography
ISBN 13 : 9781574418088
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Living in the Shadow of a Hell Ship written by Georgianne Burlage and published by North Texas Military Biography. This book was released on 2020 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Book is a daughter's story of her father's experience as a Japanese POW in World War II. She has written an intro and assembled his notes and memoir of his experiences"--

Prisoners of the Japanese

Author : Gavan Daws
Publisher : Pocket Books
ISBN 13 : 9781416511533
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Prisoners of the Japanese written by Gavan Daws and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A devastating portrait of the suffering of Japanese-held POWs in the Second World War.

Lost Childhood

Author : Annelex Hofstra Layson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426303211
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Lost Childhood written by Annelex Hofstra Layson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts her childhood experiences as a Japanese prisoner during World War II.

1220 Days

Author : Robert C. Daniels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781467054270
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book 1220 Days written by Robert C. Daniels and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The true story of U.S. Marine Edmond Babler who was forced to surrender during the early days of the U.S. involvement in World War II when the fortress Island of Corregidor fell to the Japanese. ... this manuscript, transcribed from his own narrative, is Ed's story from the time he joined the Marine Corps until his return from 1,220 days of brutal captivity in Japanese prisoner of war camps."--Back cover.

The Barbed-wire University

Author : Midge Gillies
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781845136291
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The Barbed-wire University written by Midge Gillies and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on letters home, diaries, and interviews with redoubtable survivors now into their nineties, the amazing untold stories of what Allied prisoners really did in POW camps, and how the experiences changed their lives Feature films have created the stereotype of the World War II prisoner of war—the stiff-upper-lipped Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai, or Steve McQueen's cunning and opportunist in The Great Escape—but this groundbreaking work of social history shows that the true experiences of nearly half a million Allied servicemen held captive were nothing like the Hollywood myth; they were infinitely more extraordinary. Real POWs responded to the tedium of a German stalag or the brutality of a Japanese camp with the most amazing ingenuity and creativity—they staged glittering shows, concerts, and elaborate sporting events; took up crafts and pastimes using materials they found around them; wrote books and published magazines; and even improvised daring surgical techniques to save their fellow men's lives. Men studied, attended lectures, learned languages, and sat for exams on such a scale that one camp was nicknamed The Barbed Wire University. Often the years in captivity proved a turning-point in their lives, as the new interests and skills they took out of the camp enabled them to embark on a post-war career in which they would succeed at the highest level.

The Last Corpsman

Author : Juan Carlos Marcos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996083843
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (838 download)

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Download or read book The Last Corpsman written by Juan Carlos Marcos and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Escape I Must!

Author : Harvey E. Gann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Escape I Must! written by Harvey E. Gann and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sons and Soldiers

Author : Bruce Henderson
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062419110
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Sons and Soldiers written by Bruce Henderson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller The definitive story of the Ritchie Boys, as featured on CBS's 60 Minutes "An irresistible history of the WWII Jewish refugees who returned to Europe to fight the Nazis.” —Newsday They were young Jewish boys who escaped from Nazi-occupied Europe and resettled in America. After the United States entered the war, they returned to fight for their adopted homeland and for the families they had left behind. Their stories tell the tale of one of the U.S. Army’s greatest secret weapons. Sons and Soldiers begins during the menacing rise of Hitler’s Nazi party, as Jewish families were trying desperately to get out of Europe. Bestselling author Bruce Henderson captures the heartbreaking stories of parents choosing to send their young sons away to uncertain futures in America, perhaps never to see them again. As these boys became young men, they were determined to join the fight in Europe. Henderson describes how they were recruited into the U.S. Army and how their unique mastery of the German language and psychology was put to use to interrogate German prisoners of war. These young men—known as the Ritchie Boys, after the Maryland camp where they trained—knew what the Nazis would do to them if they were captured. Yet they leapt at the opportunity to be sent in small, elite teams to join every major combat unit in Europe, where they collected key tactical intelligence on enemy strength, troop and armored movements, and defensive positions that saved American lives and helped win the war. A postwar army report found that nearly 60 percent of the credible intelligence gathered in Europe came from the Ritchie Boys. Sons and Soldiers draws on original interviews and extensive archival research to vividly re-create the stories of six of these men, tracing their journeys from childhood through their escapes from Europe, their feats and sacrifices during the war, and finally their desperate attempts to find their missing loved ones. Sons and Soldiers is an epic story of heroism, courage, and patriotism that will not soon be forgotten.