One Marine's war
Subtitle: A Combat Interpreter's Quest for Mercy in the Pacific
By: by Gerald A. Meehl
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Annapolis, MD
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781612510927; 9781612510934
Subjects: Alumni and alumnae; United States; Translators; World War, 1939-1945; United States. Marine Corps; Translating and interpreting; United States. Navy. Japanese Language School; Officers; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: a peculiar incident on Saipan, western tropical pacific, 1944; title: An unusual childhood: Shanghai, 1932; title: Japanese language immersion: Berkeley, California and Boulder, Colorado; title: 1942-43; title: Combat training: Camp Elliott, and on to the Pacific, 1943; title: Adventures in Japanese language: New Zealand and Noumea, New Caledonia, 1943; title: First combat: Japanese surrender not an option on Tarawa, 1943; title: Between campaigns: Hawaii, 1943-1944; title: They didn't all commit suicide: the Japanese surrenders at Saipan, 1944; title: A human connection with the enemy: Tinian, 1944; title: Japanese language and WWII in retrospect: Boulder, 2002.