True Tales of World War II: "We Were There"

Merriam Press World War 2 Memoir Series

52 stories by and about those who experienced World War II first-hand.

Contents

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 (CV2)

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-Scharf hrer 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

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