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Fighting Hoosiers Indiana in two World Wars
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| 자료유형 | 단행본 |
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| 서명/저자사항 | Fighting Hoosiers : Indiana in two World Wars/ Dawn Bakken. |
| 개인저자 | Bakken, Dawn E.,editor, |
| 발행사항 | Bloomington: Indiana University Press, [2021]. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource. |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: Fighting Hoosiers Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2021] 9780253056832 |
| ISBN | 0253056853 9780253056856 |
| 내용주기 | Pride, patriotism and the press : the evolving true story of the first American shot of World War I / Greta A Fisher and Lauren E. Kuntzman -- On convoy duty in World War I : the diary of Hoosier Guy Connor / edited by Jeffrey L. Patrick -- A Hoosier nurse in France : the World War I diary of Maude Francis Essig / Alma S. Woolley -- "Oatmeal and coffee" : memoirs of a Hoosier soldier in World War I / Kenneth Gearhart Baker, edited and introduced by Robert H Ferrell, transcription and postscript by Betty Baker Rinker -- Recollections of a World War II combat medic / Bernard L. Rice -- A Hoosier soldier in the British Isles / Lawrence B. McFaddin -- "A fair chance to do my part of the work" : black women, war work, and rights claims at the Kingsbury Ordinance Plant / Katherine Turk. |
| 요약 | "Fighting Hoosiers: Indiana in Two World Wars tells the compelling, heartbreaking, and breathtaking stories of some of the hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers who served their country during the First and Second World Wars. Drawn from the rich holdings of the Indiana Magazine of History, a journal of state and midwestern history published since 1905, the collection includes original diaries, letters and memoirs, as well as research essays-all of them focused on Hoosiers in the two world wars. Readers will meet Alex Arch, a Hungarian-born immigrant who was the first American to fire a shot in World War I; Maude Essig, a nurse serving with the American Red Cross in wartime France; Kenneth Baker, a soldier in the Army Signal Corps, who crawled across French fields (sometimes over and around dead bodies) to lay phone lines for military communications; and Bernard Rice, a combat medic who witnessed the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945. Indiana's brave men and women like these have served with distinction in the armed forces since the earliest days of the Indiana Territory. Fighting Hoosiers offers a compelling glimpse at some of their remarkable stories"-- |
| 해제 | Provided by publisher. |
| 주제명(지명) | United States --Armed Forces --Biography. Indiana. --fast United States. --fast |
| 일반주제명 | World War, 1914-1918 --Indiana. World War, 1939-1945 --Indiana. Soldiers --Indiana --Biography. Armed Forces. Soldiers. HISTORY / Military / World War I |
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