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

Merriam Press Military Monograph 87. First Edition (December 2011). 52 stories by and about those who experienced World War II first-hand. 85 photos. 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 (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