MICHIANA HISTORY PUBLICATIONS

HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MATERIALS ON:
ILLINOIS-INDIANA-MICHIGAN-OHIO AND SELECTED OTHER STATES

World War II

Indiana

Letters from Fighting Hoosiers. (Indiana in World War II, VolumeII). Selected and Edited by Howard H. Peckham and Shirley A. Snyder. Indiana War History War Commission. Bloomington. 1948. 406 pages. Hardcover.

Operating during the war years as a part of the state civilian defense organization, the Indiana War History Commission concentrated upon the collection of every possible kind of record bearing in Indiana's partipation in the war. These letters are an attempt to convey how the war looked and sounded, how it smelled and felt, a representative number of Hoosiers. The great merit of the letters is their contemporaneousness and their eyewitness authenticity.

Price: $25.00

Cavnes, Max Parvin. The Hoosier Community at War. Indiana University. Bloomington. 1961. 527 pages. Softcover.

Discusses the war boom towns of Charlestown, Crane Naval Ammunition Depot, the Wabash River Ordnance Plant and Kingsbury Ordnance Plant; race relations, public health and welfare, education and much more.

Price: 7.50

Japanese -Americans

Crost, Lyn. Honor By Fire. Japanese Americas at War in Europe and the Pacific. Presidio. 1994. 346 pages. Hardcover.

Note: ex-library copy.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese-Americans were singled out for the nation's suspicions. Yet many volunteered for military duty and served in the Europe and Pacific theaters of war, both in combat and as linguists in the Military Intelligence Service (MIS). This book is the first to tell of the MISers' incredible exploits, combined with the experiences of the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team.

Price: $5.00

North Carolina

Our Neighbors, Our Heroes, An Oral History of Rural Hall, North Carolina. World War II Veterans. Their Memories: Before, During and After the War. A Project of the Friends of the Library Rural Hall/Stanleyville Branch. Edited by Shirley Easter Tuttle. 2000. 494 pages. Hardcover.

Contains interviews of 55 World War II veterans. Not all of them served in combat positions. Some were mail clerks, barbers, nurses, doctors, cooks, truck drives, commnicatins technicians, pilots, gunners and infantrymen. The histories of those who participated are transcribed as they were told by the participants. Many of the men related memories that had been repressed for half a century.

Price: $45.00

Ship Sinkings

Jackson, Carlton. Forgotten Tragedy. The Sinking of HMT Rohna. U. S. Naval Institute Press. 1997. 207 pages. Hardcover.

Note: ex-library copy.

More than one thousand American soldiers were killed on November 26, 1943 when the British troopship Rohna was hit by a German guided bomb in the Mediterranean - the greatest single loss of American lives at sea in World War II and one of the worst tragedies in maritime history. At the time, the disaster was kept secret for security purposes, but even after the war little information was given out. This book tells the story in full for the first time.

Price: $5.00

Waves

Wingo, Josette Dermody. Mother Was a Gunner's Mate. World War II in the Waves. U. S. Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1994. 234 pages. Hardcover.

Note: ex-library book.

In 1944 the Josette Dermody joined the U. S. Navy. She learned to shoot antiaircraft guns at Great Lakes and spent the rest of the war teaching sailors of the Armed Guard Center on Treasure Islands, California, to use the ring gunsights on Oerlikons. This book follows her exploits through the end of the war.

Price: $5.00