World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
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World War, 1939-1945
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- Air Apaches, the true story of the 345th Bomb Group and its low, fast, and deadly missions in World War II, Jay A. Stout
- Southwest passage, the Yanks in the Pacific, John Lardner ; introduction by Alex Belth
- Rescued by Mao, World War II, Wake Island, and my remarkable escape to freedom across mainland China, William Taylor
- Luck of the draw, my story of the air war in Europe, Frank Murphy ; foreword by Chloe Melas, and Elizabeth Murphy
- Honor & sacrifice, the Roy Matsumoto story, produced by Stourwater Pictures in association with the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community ; a film by Lucy Ostrander and Don Sellers ; producer-director, Lucy Ostrander & Don Sellers ; cinematographer, editor & writer, Don Sellers
- Gavin at war, the World War II diary of Lieutenant General James M. Gavin, edited and annotated by Lewis Sorley ; additional annotation by Keith Nightingale
- Guerrilla daughter, Virginia Hansen Holmes
- Helmet for my pillow, from Parris Island to the Pacific : a young Marine's stirring account of combat in World War II, Robert Leckie
- Citizen 13660, drawings & text by Miné Okubo
- The life and times of Rosie the Riveter, a Clarity Production ; produced and directed by Connie Field
- Desert exile, the uprooting of a Japanese American family, Yoshiko Uchida
- Zui wei da de shi dai, The greatest generation, Tangmu Buluokao zhu ; Chu Nai'an yi
- Roi Ottley's World War II, the lost diary of an African American journalist, edited with an introduction by Mark A. Huddle
- China pilot, flying for Chiang and Chennault, Felix Smith
- The time left between us, Alicia DeFonzo
- Code talker, Chester Nez, with Judith Schiess Avila
- Whispered silences, Japanese Americans and World War II, essay by Gary Y. Okihiro ; photographs by Joan Myers
- Years of infamy, the untold story of America's concentration camps, Michi Nishiura Weglyn ; with an introduction by James A. Michener
- The evacuation diary of Hatsuye Egami, edited and with an introduction by Claire Gorfinkel
- World War II writings, A.J. Liebling
- The greatest generation, Tom Brokaw
- A different battle, stories of Asian Pacific American veterans, edited by Carina A. del Rosario ; with a historical essay by Ken Mochizuki and Carina A. del Rosario ; contemporary photographs by Dean Wong
- Tiger tales, Milt Miller ; illustrated by Phil Wallace
- Eyewitness to World War II, unforgettable stories and photographs from history's greatest conflict, Neil Kagan [editor] , Stephen G. Hyslop [compiler]
- Guadalcanal, Tarawa and beyond, a mud Marine's memoir of the Pacific island war, William W. Rogal
- The rifle, combat stories from America's last WWII veterans, told through an M1 Garand, Andrew Biggio ; foreword by Hershel "Woody" Williams
- From our side of the fence, growing up in America's concentration camps, edited by Brian Komei Dempster
- Every man a hero, a memoir of D-Day, the first wave at Omaha Beach, and a world at war, Ray Lambert and Jim DeFelice
- Proof of loyalty, Kazuo Yamane and the Nisei soldiers of Hawaii, Stourwater Pictures ; produced & directed by Lucy Ostrander & Don Sellers
- Adios to tears, the memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian internee in U.S. concentration camps, Seiichi Higashide ; foreword by C. Harvey Gardiner ; preface by Elsa H. Kudo ; epilogue by Julie Small
- Dear Bob .., Bob Hope's wartime correspondence with the G.I.s of World War II, written and compiled by Martha Bolton with Linda Hope
- Amerika ichi jōhō heishi no nikki, [chosha Kāru Yoneda] = A Nikkei M.I.S soldier's diary : 1942-1945 / by Karl G. Yoneda
- 0500, letters from a WW II combat infantryman, Verdi Gilbertson ; editor, Keith Gilbertson
- For God, country, and the thrill of it, Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II : photographic portraits and text, by Anne Noggle ; with an introduction by Dora Dougherty Strother
- A fence away from freedom, Japanese Americans and World War II, Ellen Levine
- The best from Yank, the army weekly, selected by the editors of Yank
- A foot soldier for Patton, the story of a "Red Diamond" infantryman with the U.S. Third Army, Michael C. Bilder with James G. Bilder
- Wear it proudly, letters, by William Shinji Tsuchida
- Behind both lines, by Harold Denny
- Berlinskiĭ dnevnik, Evropa nakanune Vtoroĭ mirovoĭ voĭny glazami amerikanskogo korrespondenta, Uilʹ︠i︡am Shirer ; [per. s angl. L.A. Igorevskogo]
- The final mission of Bottoms Up, a World War II pilot's story, Dennis R. Okerstrom
- Combat crew, the story of 25 combat missions over Europe from the daily journal of a B-17 gunner, John Comer
- The cross on Castle Rock, a childhood memoir, George Nakagawa
- Journey for Margaret
- Reflections of Pearl Harbor, an oral history of December 7, 1941, K.D. Richardson ; foreword by Paul Stillwell
- The warriors, reflections on men in battle, J. Glenn Gray ; with a new foreword, 1970, by the author ; introduction by Hannah Arendt
- With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, E.B. Sledge
- I should live so long
- Beyond band of brothers, the war memoirs of major Dick Winters, Dick Winters with Cole C. Kingseed
- We didn't know we were heroes, Ken Ross, Norm Black, Carl Swendsen
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