![Imagen de portada para The Jersey brothers [text (large print)] : a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home / by Sally Mott Freeman. Imagen de portada para The Jersey brothers [text (large print)] : a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home / by Sally Mott Freeman.](/client/assets/5.1294/ctx//client/images/no_image.png)
The Jersey brothers [text (large print)] : a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home / by Sally Mott Freeman.
Título:
The Jersey brothers [text (large print)] : a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home / by Sally Mott Freeman.
ISBN:
9781410498649
Autor personal:
Edición:
Large print edition.
Información de publicación:
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2017.
©2017
Descripción física:
901 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Contenido:
April 1942, Luzon, the Philippines -- Benny -- Helen -- Bill -- Cabanatuan, Spring 1942 -- White House Map Room, April 1942 -- This force is bound for Tokyo -- Barton, 1930-1941 -- The perils of escape and a little baseball -- A brother's burden: the search -- Midway -- Under siege: JN-25 -- To Davao: en avant! -- And then there was one: USS Enterprise versus Japan -- The other war: Army-Navy football -- Happy days at the penal colony -- Winter's grief -- Escape: crime and punishment -- Farewell to the White House -- A tale of atrocities -- August 1943: allied war summit, Quebec, Canada -- Revenge on the innocent and a covert plan -- Secrets inside the oxygen tent -- Hero of Bataan versus the War Department -- Bad tidings -- Politics in Brisbane -- Proceed to Kwajalein -- The best-laid plans -- Initiation at Saipan -- Decampment -- September 1944, lilac hedges -- Hopes dashed -- Setbacks -- Through a prism: MacArthur's return -- What Benny knew -- The Oryoko Maru -- End game in the Pacific -- A sailor's nightmare -- In the end, a question of casualties and sea power -- No peace at lilac hedges -- Final hours -- Epilogue.
Síntesis:
Documents the extraordinary story of three brothers in World War II, describing the rescue mission launched by the elder two when their youngest brother was declared missing in action in the Philippines.
Materia corporativa:
DAK_SUBJECT_TERM:
DAK_OCLC_NUMBER:
ocn971509542
Disponibilidad:
Burnsville - Burnhaven~1