Dispatches from the Pacific : the World War II reporting of Robert L. Sherrod

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"In the fall of 1943, armed with only his notebooks and pencils, Time and Life correspondent Robert L. Sherrod leapt from the safety of a landing craft and waded through neck-deep water and a hail of bullets to reach the shores of the Tarawa Atoll with the US Marine Corps. Living shoulder to sh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boomhower, Ray E., 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Sherrod, Robert Lee, > 1909-1994.
Sherrod, Robert Lee, > 1909-1994
United States. > Marine Corps > History > World War, 1939-1945.
United States. > Marine Corps
1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Pacific Area.
War correspondents > United States > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Press coverage > United States.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Editors, Journalists, Publishers.
Military campaigns
Press coverage
War correspondents
Pacific Area
United States
Biographies
History
Personal narratives > American
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • The war correspondent
  • Learning the trade
  • Somewhere in Australia
  • War in the fog and atolls : the Aleutians and beyond
  • Betio : Red Beach two
  • Saipan : Smith versus Smith
  • Uncommon valor : Iwo Jima and the flag raising
  • Okinawa : the final battle
  • "Taps."

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