Blue skies and thunder : farm boy, pilot, inventor, TSA officer, and World War II soldier of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team : memoir of a Japanese American / by Virgil W. Westdale with Stephanie A. Gerdes.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: D753.8 .W47 2009

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Format: Book
Author/Creator: Westdale, Virgil W.
Published: New York : iUniverse, [2009]
©2009
Locale: United States
Other Authors/Editors: Gerdes, Stephanie A.

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Language: English
ISBN: 9781440182570
1440182574
Physical Description: xiii, 281 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm

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Subjects: Inventors--United States--Biography. Scientists--United States--Biography. World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American. Autobiographies. Personal narratives. Westdale, Virgil W. United States.--Army.--Regimental Combat Team, 442nd. United States.--Army.--Field Artillery Battalion, 522nd. United States.--Transportation Security Administration.

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Blue skies and thunder : farm boy, pilot, inventor, TSA officer, and World War II soldier of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team : memoir of a Japanese American / by Virgil W. Westdale with Stephanie A. Gerdes.

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