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So long for now : a sailor's letters from the USS Franklin / [edited by] Jerry L. Rogers ; foreword by Robert M. Utley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rogers, Elden Duane, 1926-1945, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rogers, Elden, 1926-1945.
- Rogers, Elden.
- Franklin (Aircraft carrier).
- Rogers family.
- Sailors--United States--Correspondence.
- Sailors.
- United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.
- Sailors--United States--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- Vega (Tex.)--Biography.
- Vega (Tex.).
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives -- American.
- Autobiographies.
- Personal correspondence.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 416 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Sailor's letters from the USS Franklin
- Place of Publication:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- The telegram
- The "Westerers"
- "The past is a foreign country"
- War
- What's the matter with kids today?
- Hang up your flags and put on your pins
- The world in seven decks under an airfield
- The home front
- Farewell, Fibber McGee
- Not a holiday
- Fair weather and foul
- A welcome break
- Palau: this time for real
- Metamorphosis
- "Thirty days leave coming in on the port side"
- Three strikes and out
- Three cheers
- and the end of cheer
- "Anybody home?"
- I don't think I'll make it
- "Would you like to have a transfer?"
- "So long for now"
- Fire and water
- "There's dead people in there!"
- Holding on to hope
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780806156323
- 0806156325
- OCLC:
- 959610603
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