The Williwaw War : the Arkansas National Guard in the Aleutians in World War II / Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldstein, Donald M., author.

Dillon, Katherine V., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arkansas. National Guard. Coast Artillery, 206th--History.

Arkansas.

Arkansas. National Guard. Infantry, 153rd--History.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Alaska--Aleutian Islands.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States.

Aleutian Islands (Alaska)--History.

Aleutian Islands (Alaska).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 416 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, [1992]

Summary:

When the 206th Coast Artillery Regiment of the Arkansas National Guard was called into federal service in January of 1941, few of the soldiers saw this action as anything more than a temporary detour in their lives.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. "Well Above the Average

2. "Training Began to Pick Up

3. "Who Knows Our Destiny ... ?

4. "A Sometimes Difficult Situation

5. "Is this Alaska?

6. "Officially Named Fort Mears

7. "Early On in Our Story

8. "Still Just a Big Adventure

9. "It Really Looks Serious Now

10. "This Is It!

11. "Under Trying Conditions

12. "Snafu!

13. "This Country Gets You

14. "We Plowed On

15. "A Dangerous Game

16. "Tomorrow May Bring Untold Things

17. "It's the Damn Japs!

18. "Friendly Planes, Hell!

19. "The Waiting Is Torment

20. "Like a Big Bunch of Mosquitos

21. "They Sure Did Some Damage

22. "We Calmed Down Some

23. "The Japs Are Here!

24. "Settled on Hog Island

25. "Unfit for Pigs

26. "But Duty Is Duty

27. "A Little Lift

28. "The Worst Storm of the Tour

29. "A White Christmas

30. "Out There When Conditions Were Rough

3l. "The Japanese Could Have Sunk Salt Lake City with a Baseball

32. "Charged with a Herculean Task

33. "Sweating the Attack

34. "Get the Damned Thing Over With

35. "We Think We WIll be Seeing Action Soon

36. "A Great Big, Juicy, Expensive Mistake

37. "The War Had Gone By

38. "Back to Civilization

39. "A Learning Experience

Epilogue: Return to Yesterday

Notes

Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [395]-402) and index.

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ISBN:

9781610754644

1610754646

OCLC:

1076258432