The measure of a man : my father, the Marine Corps, and Saipan / Kathleen Broome Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Kathleen Broome, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Saipan, Battle of, Northern Mariana Islands, 1944.

United States. Marine Corps--Officers--Biography.

United States.

United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 24th.

United States. Marine Corps--History--World War, 1939-1945.

Broome, Roger Grenville Brooke, III, 1914-1944.

Broome, Roger Grenville Brooke.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

Annapolis : Naval Institute Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Maj. Roger G. B. Broome, USMCR, died from wounds received on Saipan before his daughter had a chance to know him. Now a well-known naval historian and author of award-winning books, that daughter, Kathleen Broome Williams, has turned the research skills she honed studying naval technology to find her lost father. For this biography, she makes full use of an extensive collection of her father's colorful and articulate letters along with the testimony of surviving Leathernecks who served with Major Broome, backed up by official records.The book reconstructs her father's life as a University of V

Contents:

Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Virginia: ""A 4o or 5 a.m. Bugle Would Do. . . a World of Good"" ; 2. Virginia: ""Both by Inclination and by Training"" ; 3. Philadelphia-New York- Quantico: ""I Am the Luckiest Man in the Whole Wide World"" ; 4. Brazil: ""The Bloodless Battle of Belem"" ; 5. Newport-Camp Lejeune-Camp Pendleton: ""Those Duties Which Were Not of My Chooslng"" ; 6. Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands: ""I Have the Safe Place the General's Aide Is Forced to Occupy"" ; 7. Maui: ""The Best Job in the Marine Corps for a Major""

8. Saipan, Mariana Islands: ""We Are Going in and Kick Hell out of Them"" 9. Haiwaii and Home: ""I Have Attached to Me a Large and Complicated Device of Bottles and Tubes"" ; Epilogue ; Notes on Sources; Bibliography ; Index ; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61251-267-4

OCLC:

850204760