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By Kenneth K. Hatfield

ISBN-10: 0826263356

ISBN-13: 9780826263353

"War is set patriotism, approximately sacrifice, approximately conquering worry. and maybe such a lot of all, it is in regards to the man in the foxhole subsequent to you, caring for one another, retaining every one different, loving one another; a camaraderie so severe in basic terms males who've been in strive against can ever recognize what it truly is like. sure, such a lot of all, struggle is approximately love."

Heartland Heroes is a set of exceptional tales from usual women and men who lived via awesome instances. They resided in areas like Lee’s Summit, Independence, and Kansas urban, but their reports have been greatly like these of worldwide struggle II veterans in every single place. a few have been marines, nurses, or fighter pilots, others have been easily civilians who lived during the warfare below the martial legislations imposed at the Hawaiian Islands after the assault on Pearl Harbor.

In Heartland Heroes, Ken Hatfield gathers the tales of greater than 80 women and men, whom he started interviewing in 1984 whereas reporting for a small weekly newspaper in Liberty, Missouri. Hatfield’s first topic was once a marine named Bob Barackman, the uncle of 1 of Hatfield’s coworkers. That interview, which lasted for numerous hours, had a profound impact on Hatfield. He started to notice that as a journalist he had a special chance to maintain that small piece of historical past each one veteran includes with him.

Hatfield spent the following seventeen years interviewing approximately 100 international struggle II veterans and different members, however it was once no longer till August 2001 that he made up our minds to collect the tales right into a publication. The interviewees, such a lot of whom lived within the Kansas urban zone on the time of the interviews, integrated Jim Daniels, a Grumman Wildcat pilot, who whereas attempting to land at Pearl Harbor at the night after the japanese assault, survived a snow fall of pleasant fireplace, which claimed the lives of 3 of his buddies and fellow pilots; Charles McGee, a pilot with 143 strive against missions to his credits, who fought the Germans within the air and racism at the floor as one of many Tuskegee Airmen; and Dee Nicholson, who was once simply six years previous while the japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and her domestic on Hawaii. She and her father keep in mind what existence was once like for them and others, together with jap americans, after that fateful day.

Following the struggle, those brave women and men back to the lives that they had left and attempted to regulate as top they can. Hatfield collects their own memories—the stories of the heroes who helped to protect their country within the final worldwide clash this kingdom has noticeable. They loaned Hatfield their medals, commendations, and regimental and divisional histories to assist him rfile and piece jointly their tales. almost them all downplayed their honors, insisting that they had performed not anything specified. via their tales, Heartland Heroes effectively captures this fading time period for destiny generations.

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The Russians, wishing to remain neutral in relations with Japan while they fought the Nazis on their western front, interned the crew for fourteen months. Most of the original eighty crewmen are gone now. At the Air Force Academy in Colorado, there is a large display case with eighty silver goblets arranged in sixteen rows of five goblets each. On each goblet is printed a name—upside down. When one of the Doolittle raiders dies, his goblet is turned over so his name can be read. In the center of the display case is a bottle of 1896 brandy.

Guadalcanal had the distinction of being the first American land offensive of the war. S. crippled the Japanese fleet during the battle of Midway. S. had the Japanese on the defensive and needed to maintain that advantage. Invading Guadalcanal turned out to be easy, but the Japanese high command had no intention of giving it up without a fight. It poured thousands of reinforcements down the Slot—the corridor of waters between the islands in the Solomons chain—to retake the tiny malaria-ridden island, which, except for an airfield, had little strategic value.

Nate Fetters, nicknamed “Rusty” for his red hair, ended up in the Pacific as a Seabee. ” Kreeger spent the war as a “fresh water and oil king,” maintaining the Iowa’s fresh-water evaporators and pumps and helping to fuel destroyers. As his battle station, he was assigned first to the ship’s massive sixteen-inch guns and later to the forty-millimeter and twenty-millimeter antiaircraft batteries. He spent eighteen months in the Pacific, survived numerous kamikaze attacks, and was in Tokyo Bay, his ship anchored next to the USS Missouri, when the surrender documents were signed, ending World War II on September 2, 1945.

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