Underage and under fire : accounts of the youngest Americans in military service / Allan C. Stover ; foreword by John L. Henson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stover, Allan C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child soldiers--United States--History.

Child soldiers.

Child soldiers--United States--Biography.

History.

United States--Armed Forces--Biography.

United States.

Armed Forces.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 190 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]

Summary:

"This work tells the personal stories of kids who left home and enlisted at ages 11-16 in the U.S. military (missing proms, adolescence with family and friends; serving on ships, airplanes, faraway bases, battlefields, some becoming prisoners of war, performing above and beyond), why and how they got in and what happened to them while there"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 What Do You Mean, Too Young to Serve? 5

2 Children at War 14

3 How Did We Pull It Off? 25

4 Why We Did It 43

5 Some Wouldn't Give Up 51

6 In the Beginning: Surviving Boot Camp 55

7 Surviving the First Assignment 67

8 Young Prisoners of War 75

9 Those Who Were Caught 80

10 Brothers and Buddies 87

11 The Youngest of the Young 93

12 The Youngest Women 108

13 They Had It Tougher Than Most 124

14 A Few More Stories 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 185) and index.

ISBN:

9780786474530

078647453X

OCLC:

864097216