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Author Goldstein, Donald M

Title The Williwaw War : the Arkansas National Guard in the Aleutians in World War II / Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon
Published Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 416 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Well above the average -- Training began to pick up -- Who knows our destiny? -- Sometimes difficult situation -- Is this Alaska? -- Officially named Fort Mears -- Early on in our story -- Still just a big adventure -- It really looks serious now -- This is it -- Under trying conditions -- Snafu -- This country gets you -- We plowed on -- Dangerous game -- Tomorrow may bring untold things -- It's the damn japs -- Friendly planes, hell! -- Waiting is torment -- Like a big bunch of mosquitos -- They sure did some damage -- We calmed down some -- Japs are here -- Settled on Hog Island -- Unfit for pigs -- But duty is duty -- Little lift -- Worst storm of the tour -- White Christmas -- Out there when conditions were rough -- Japanese could have sunk Salt Lake City with a baseball -- Charged with a Herculean task -- Sweating the attack -- Get the damned thing over with -- We think we will be seeing action soon -- Great big, juicy, expensive mistake -- War had gone by -- Back to civilization -- Learning experience
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-402) and index
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Subject Arkansas. National Guard. Coast Artillery, 206th -- History
Arkansas. National Guard. Infantry, 153rd -- History
SUBJECT Arkansas. National Guard. Coast Artillery, 206th fast
Arkansas. National Guard. Infantry, 153rd fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Alaska -- Aleutian Islands
World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
HISTORY -- General.
Military campaigns
Regimental histories
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Alaska -- Aleutian Islands.
SUBJECT Aleutian Islands (Alaska) -- History
Subject Alaska -- Aleutian Islands
United States
United States, Arkansas -- Military history -- World War, 1939-1945.
United States, Alaska -- Military history -- World War, 1939-1945.
United States, Arkansas -- Military history -- World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories.
Arkansas
Aleuten
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Dillon, Katherine V
LC no. 91042730
ISBN 9781610754644
1610754646