WWII
A Chronicle of Soldiering
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Acknowledgments
I
To Us Old Men
In the Beginning
Whistling Dixie
I Didn’t Raise My Boy
The Coral Sea and Midway
Waiting While Waiting . . . a Look at Europe
Guadalcanal
Soldier’s Evolution
First War Art
The Battle of Auckland
North Africa
Grand Strategy
Green and Obscene
Is History Written by the Upper Classes for the Upper Classes?
II
Humor
The Art Programs
The Big War
Casualties
The Forgotten Year
Pacific Chess
Tarawa, Saipan, Peleliu
Painting It
Anonymity
Italy
More on Humor: Mauldin
Anzio
Going Out
Overlord
Hospital
The Home Front
Love among the Riveters
III
D-Day
Bloodbath at Omaha
Consolidation
Air War
Nose Art
Breakout— and the Long Haul
The Final Evolution
The Bulge
Philippines: First Leyte, and Then Luzon
Twilight of Some Old Gods
IV
The Last Mile
The Last Yard
The Last Foot
Mushroom
Bugbear
Surrender Now
Responsibility, but for What?
An End to It
Pass in Review!
References
Index
Illustrations
Maps
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