To Hell and Almost Back
Subtitle: Life of a Seriously Disabled WWII Veteran
Publisher: Xlibris Corp
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [Bloomington, Ind]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781462878628
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; American Personal narratives; Disabled veterans; Soldiers; Veterans; United States. Army. Signal Company, 324th; United States; United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 345th. Company L. Platoon, 2nd
Description: After being wounded early in 1945 reesulting in one foot being paralysed and the other partially paralysed, Sam Jones spent nearly one and a half years recovering in hospitals. Being unable to return to farming, he retrained asan electronics engineer. During the Vietnam War he managed the technical portion of the civil/military air traffic control system before going on to, among other things, being project engineer installing a mjor aviation communication project for South American, being Chief of the FAA Air Navigation Engineering Branch in Washington DC and working in telecommunications for a UN organization in Botswana. During this time he had ongoing health problems, physical and mental, resulting from his war service. A friend suggested that he write down his experiences in an effort to help get past them and, after finding this helpful, Sam decided to continue with his memoirs for the benefit of his family and because he realized that his generation were gradually dying and that their experiences were not often being recorded for posterity.
Notes: "Drafted in 1990. Edited in 2002 after official records were received. Completed in 2010."
Table of contents: title: Brief history; title: World War II; title: Career development; title: The Vietnam War; title: Life in the Andes; title: UN in Africa; title: Final retirement.