LEADER 03550cam a2200493 a 4500001 270959 005 20240621232857.0 008 070906s2007 paua b 001 0ceng 010 2007036726 020 9781885851208 |q(alkaline paper) 020 1885851200 |q(alkaline paper) 035 (OCoLC)ocn170058182 035 270959 043 n-us--- 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDXCP |dOCLCG |dBTCTA |dGEBAY |dMHR |dOCLCF |dOCLCO |dOCLCQ |dOCL 050 00 D769 |b.H67 2007 245 03 An honor to serve / |cgeneral editors, Richard David Wissolik [and others] ; editors, Barbara Wissolik [and others] ; contributing editors, Marjorie Wertz, Joseph Adams, O.S.B., John J. DiBattista. 264 1 Latrobe, Pa. : |bPublications of the Saint Vincent College Center for Northern Appalachian Studies, |c2007. 300 538 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 World War II veteran history series ; |v2 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 This book recounts the World War II experiences of forty-five extraordinary people, including Jesse Lesico of Koloa, Hawaii, a veteran of the battles in New Guinea and the Philippines; Gotfried Pletzer, a German-American from New Jersey, who fought against the German Army in France and deep into Germany; Thomas Katana of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, severely wounded in the heavy fighting near Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge; Eric Leiseroff, a Jew born in Dresden, Germany, who participated in the Nazi death camp at Ohrdruf, only fifty miles from the German town in which his family lived; Jonathan Lukowsky of Ford City, Pennsylvania, a sailor aboard the USS Santee, when that ship took a direct hit from a Japanese Kamikaze during the battle of Leyte Gulf; James Jochen, of College Station, Texas, who fought into the heart of the Third Reich with the 89th Division; Earl Woodard of Naylor, Missouri, a B-17 navigator who eluded capture with the help of French resistance fighters after his plane was downed over France; Percy Hiatt, of Emporia, Kansas, who fought in the jungles of New Guinea; Marjorie Butterfield, United States Army Nurse Corps, who witnessed the brutality of the War while serving as a nurse in Patton's Third Army. Presented are eye-witness accounts to uncommon bravery, boredom, bloodshed, brutality, gruesome humor, and an almost nonchalant attitude toward atrocities committed in the heat of battle during that terrible conflict. Fear is also a common element in these experiences lived so many decades ago. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, American. 651 0 United States |xArmed Forces |vBiography. 611 27 World War (1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01180924 650 7 Armed Forces. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00814586 651 7 United States. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204155 650 07 Soldat. |2swd 650 07 Weltkrieg (1939-1945) |2swd 651 7 USA. |2swd 648 7 1939 - 1945 |2fast 655 7 Biography. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 Personal narratives |vAmerican. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01424071 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 655 7 Personal narratives. |2lcgft 700 1 Wissolik, Richard David, |d1938- 700 1 Wissolik, Barbara J. 830 0 World War II veteran history series ; |v2. 852 0 |bstacks |hD769 |i.H67 2007