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LEADER: 03607cam 2200673 a 4500
001 ocm52644387
003 OCoLC
005 20200627020232.0
008 030710s2003 ctua b 001 0ceng
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050 00 $aD810.A79$bB56 2003
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100 1 $aBloomfield, Gary L.
245 10 $aDuty, honor, victory :$bAmerica's athletes in World War II /$cGary L. Bloomfield.
260 $aGuilford, Conn. :$bLyons Press,$c©2003.
300 $a394 pages :$billustrations ;$c27 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 367-382) and index.
505 0 $a1. Prelude to war in Europe and the Pacific -- 2. Japan's legacy: "a day that will live in infamy" -- 3. Thousands volunteer for some big-time payback -- 4. The war at home -- 5. Lands down under become Pacific staging areas -- 6. Top athletes in every sport join the military -- 7. Confused beyond imagination: the China-Burma-India campaign -- 8. Nazi Wolf Packs terrorize the Atlantic -- 9. GIs get first test in North Africa -- 10. Pursuit in the Pacific -- 11. Slugging it out in the Solomons.
520 $aThis book tells the stories of athletes who served on the battlefields of World War II; including men such as football's Chuck Bednarik flying bombing missions over Germany, baseball's Bob Feller commanding an anti-aircraft gun crew on the USS Alabama, Yogi Berra on a rocket boat in Normandy, black athletes with the Tuskegge Airmen, and the winter Olympic athletes of the famed 10th Mountain Division, and many others.
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856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip046/2003015616.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/globe051/2003015616.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/globe041/2003015616.html
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