G647 We had a job to do; a basic history of world war ii through the eyes of those served
Title of the book: We had a job to do; a basic history of world war ii through the eyes of those served Author: Theresa Anzaldua Publisher: Harvard Book Store Publishing Date: 2015 ISBN: 978-1-4951-5692-2 Summary: This heartfelt tribute to World War II veterans is history that reads like fiction. Follow a soldier who fought on Patton's Third Army and who landed on Omaha Beach at 9.a.m. on D-Day; a female Army Air Forces nurse who made helping veterans her life's work; a fighter pilot who flew with the African-American unit known as the Tuskegee Airmen and who was on one of the two teams that won the first Top Gun meet after the war; a guard in a top-secret intelligence base outside of Washington, D.C. where top german weapons scientists were interrogated; a female aircraft mechanic who served int he Navy and is still active in veterans affairs seventy years later; a gunner on a B-17 heavy bomber who was shot down and spent fourteen months in German prison ...