True Tales of World War II

52 stories by and about those who experienced World War II first-hand: (1) A Replacement in the "Bloody Bucket" (2) A Tale of Two Rings (3) Bravery and World War II (4) Combat Report of the 9th SS Panzer Division, 3-24 July 1944 (5) Air Raid (6) "Fly Your Eggs Right Down Their Stacks!": A Dauntless Pilot at the Battle of Midway (7) "Dear John..." (8) The Frogmen of Eniwetok (9) "General Quarters" (10) Guts, Grit and Goals: A Vivid Illustration of the Power of the Human Mind (11) Happy Birthday, Brother (12) Interrogation of Capt. Mitsuo Fuchida, IJN: The Attack on Pearl Harbor and the Kamikaze Corps in the Philippines and Okinawa (13) It's a Wonder We Won the War (14) "I've Been Working on the Railroad..." (15) Last of the First (16) Letters From a G.I. (17) Miracle in New Guinea (18) My Bare-Handed War Against the Emperor's Bushido Killers (19) New Year's Blast at Okinawa: The Tragedy of 2 January 1946 (20) No Fault Collision (21) One Jump Too Many (22) One Man's War (23) Only God Knew the Way (24) 1st SS Panzer Regiment (11-24 December 1944): Interview with Joachim Peiper (25) Follow-Up Interview With Joachim Peiper (26) Philatelic Censorship in World War II (27) POW of Japanese Freed Self (28) The Reconners of Camp Campbell (29) Return to the River Kwai (30) Rosemarie's Story (31) Sal's Ship: The U.S.S. Lexington CV-2 (32) Save It for the War Effort (33) Scratch One Zero (34) The Sentry (35) Former Serviceman Reunited with His Bicycle (36) A Square Looks at the "Bomb" (37) SS-Scharführer Siegfried Kress Escapes! (38) The Unsinkable Liberty Ship (39) Wingman (40) You Can Still Be A Gentleman... Even Though You Served in the Pacific (41) A Jaundiced View of Tanks (42) Action in the Eifel (43) Battle of the Bulge (44) Christmas on Bougainville (45) Darned Clever These Chinese... and Confounding (46) Escape From Death in a Wellington (47) Flying PBYs with VP-61 in the Aleutians (48) I Was Expendable (49) Incident on Biak Island (50) Interrogation of Vice Adm. Kzutaka Shirachi, IJN: Occupation of the Philippines and Dutch East Indies (51) A Talk With Some Japs (52) The '88' with 20/20 Vision. 179 photos and illustrations. A Merriam Press World War II History.