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  Title

  Twenty-five yards of war : the extraordinary courage of ordinary men in World War II

  Author

  Drez, Ronald J., 1940-  

  Publisher:

  Hyperion,

  Pub date:

  c2001.

  Pages:

  xxii, 296 p. :

  ISBN:

  0786867833

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    Type/Location	Call Number	Copies	Format
    Adult: Non-fiction	940.530922 DRE	1	Book

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  Twenty-five yards of war : the extraordinary courage of ordinary men in World War II
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  Personal Author:

  Drez, Ronald J., 1940-

  Title:

  Twenty-five yards of war : the extraordinary courage of ordinary men in World War II / Ronald J. Drez ; [with a foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose.]

  Edition:

  1st ed.

  Publication info:

  New York : Hyperion, c2001.

  Physical description:

  xxii, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

  Contents:

  The Halsey Doolittle raid, April 18, 1942 : Sgt. Robert C. Bourgeois -- The Battle of Midway, June 4, 1942 : Ensigns George Gay and Albert Earnest -- Tonolei Harbor and Kahili, October 16-17, 1943 : Lt. Jack Bolt, USMC -- Betio, Tarawa Atoll, November 21, 1943 : Pvt. James Russell, U.S.M.C. -- The invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944 : Pvt. Kenneth Russell, 1st Sgt. Leonard Lomell -- The Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 20-21, 1944 : Lt. (j.g.) Arthur Abramson, U.S.N. -- The Battle of the Bulge, Lanzerath, Belgium, December 16, 1944 : 1st Lt. Lyle Bouck -- Namkwan Harbor, China, January 23, 1945 : Dr. Eugene B. Fluckey U.S.N. -- Death Valley, Iwo Jima, Feb. 25, 1945 : PFC Jay Rebstock, U.S.M.C. -- The sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, July 30, 1945 : Seaman 2/c Harold Eck.

  Summary:

  Drawing on the recollections of twelve men, an oral history of the Second World War provides a soldier's view of combat in both the European and Pacific theaters, from the D-Day invasion at Normandy to being bombed by Japanese pilots over Midway.

  Subject term:

  World War, 1939-1945--Biography.

  Subject term:

  World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns.

  Geographic term:

  United States--Armed Forces--Biography.

  Geographic term:

  United States--Armed Forces--History--World War, 1939-1945.

  key:

  BK0003731721

  ISBN:

  0786867833 : HRD $23.95