A very personal autobiography of a young boy from a provincial Indiana town who enlists in the army during World War II & acclimates himself to military life & its violence during his two-year journey throughout British & Dutch New Guinea & Leyte & Luzon in the Philippines. His activities are dovetailed with the experiences of Norm, a childhood friend & a seaman on the U.S.S. CLEVELAND. Several chapters are devoted to the childhood of Beckie, an eight-year-old Dutch girl, who, raised in Java in the Netherlands East Indies, ...
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A very personal autobiography of a young boy from a provincial Indiana town who enlists in the army during World War II & acclimates himself to military life & its violence during his two-year journey throughout British & Dutch New Guinea & Leyte & Luzon in the Philippines. His activities are dovetailed with the experiences of Norm, a childhood friend & a seaman on the U.S.S. CLEVELAND. Several chapters are devoted to the childhood of Beckie, an eight-year-old Dutch girl, who, raised in Java in the Netherlands East Indies, lived through the invasions by the Japanese. Time-paralleled with that of the author, it follows her life, with her mother & six older sisters, during their three-year internment in six different Japanese concentration camps. Frequent flash backs describing childhood experiences or flash forwards to post-war stories related to the veteran's mind set, along with detailed descriptions of war experiences, comrades, & stories creating humor or pathos, adds a human flavor to the manuscript.
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