Texans touched by World War II
By: [interviewed by] Stephen Neal Manning.
Contributors: Manning, Stephen.
Publisher: Republic of Texas Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Plano, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Texas; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American; Texas -- History, Military
Other titles: Texans touched by World War 2; Texans touched by World War Two
Description: Manning presents the true to life stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. He puts you there, capturing heroic stories we must never forget.
Table of contents: title: They shoved me aside to wash the blood off their bayonets / Louis Read; title: Even if we had money for Christmas gifts, we couldn't find anything to buy / Shirley Groce and Betty Louise Groce Hall; title: I'm proud to say I liberated a wine cellar / Bernie Travis; title: One person can make a difference / Neil and Toni Gibson; title: I felt like I was completely surrounded by bullets / B.C. Henderson; title: We felt like we really had a part in the outcome of the war / Dorothy Garmon ... [et al.]; title: I still don't like fireworks / Buddy Lewis; title: I was all right, just almost drowned is all / Sam Holder; title: Whenever they shoot one round at you, shoot 50 back at them / Jim Hansen; title: There were no visible tears; title: you just took it / Sally Mitchell; title: I wanted to go off to war, and my mother wouldn't let me / William White; title: Why don't you just shoot the damn tires out? / Charles Eck; title: Lord, just get me out of this and I promise I won't come back / Stan Prather, Gisela Botzenmayer; title: We'd never seen our parents cry before / David Perkins.