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100 1 $aMadison, James H.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83209174
245 10 $aSlinging doughnuts for the boys :$ban American woman in World War II /$cJames H. Madison.
260 $aBloomington :$bIndiana University Press,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $axviii, 300 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263-287) and index.
505 00 $tChronology of Elizabeth Richardson's Life -- $g1.$tGrowing Up, Leaving Home, and Preparing for War -- $g2.$tThe Yanks in England -- $g3.$tV-1 Rockets, the Kansas City, and the 82nd Airborne -- $g4.$tWar Comes Closer -- $g5.$tInto the English Provinces -- $g6.$tFrom the Gray Midlands to Sunny Cornwall -- $g7.$tAcross the Channel and into France -- $g8.$tV-E Day and V-E Blues -- $g9.$tOne Plane Crash -- $g10.$tThe Long Memory -- $gApp.$tWartime Writing.
520 1 $a""Hey, look, fellows! A real, live American girl!" Elizabeth Richardson often heard such greetings from GIs she met in England and France during World War II. From a converted London bus known as a Clubmobile, Liz and her fellow American Red Cross women served coffee and doughnuts to men going into or returning from combat. Making skillful use of her diary and her letters to family and friends, historian James H. Madison tells a story that gives us a poignantly different experience of the war." "Liz Richardson worked with Yanks scattered across the English countryside in 1944, spending considerable time with the famed 82nd Airborne. Later she crossed the Channel to France, to bring comfort and a touch of home to GIs and recently released Allied war prisoners. In the field she often smelled of greasy doughnuts and looked as bedraggled as the soldiers. The GIs didn't mind. Still, Liz took time to put on lipstick and a smile for lonely young men far from home. She learned how to jitterbug and sing, to wisecrack, to brush away off-color jokes, to be the respectable American girl the guys remembered. She came to know these boys as well as anyone and to understand their fears and hopes. Like them, she knew long days of grueling work in cold and rain and draining emotional encounters. She came to know war." ""I consider myself fortunate to be in Clubmobile," Liz wrote to her parents. "Can't conceive of anything else. It's a rugged and irregular and weird life, but it's wonderful. That is, as wonderful as anything can be under the circumstances."" "Liz is among the 9,387 war dead at the American Cemetery in Normandy. As much as any soldier interred there, this bright, fun loving young woman wanted to do her part to defeat the Nazi enemy. It is our good fortune that she left behind the sparkling letters and diary that bring to life her extraordinary story."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aRichardson, Elizabeth,$d1918-1945.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007025269
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xWar work$xRed Cross.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148529
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xWomen$zUnited States$vBiography.
610 20 $aAmerican Red Cross$vBiography.
650 0 $aWomen$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113564
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0715/2007014985.html
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