Indiana In World War Ii

Author : Pamela M. Potter,Christina L. Baade,Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253052506

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Music in World War II by Pamela M. Potter,Christina L. Baade,Roberta Montemorra Marvin Pdf

A collection of essays examining the roles played by music in American and European society during the Second World War. Global conflicts of the twentieth century fundamentally transformed not only national boundaries, power relations, and global economies, but also the arts and culture of every nation involved. An important, unacknowledged aspect of these conflicts is that they have unique musical soundtracks. Music in World War II explores how music and sound took on radically different dimensions in the United States and Europe before, during, and after World War II. Additionally, the collection examines the impact of radio and film as the disseminators of the war’s musical soundtrack. Contributors contend that the European and American soundtrack of World War II was largely one of escapism rather than the lofty, solemn, heroic, and celebratory mode of “war music” in the past. Furthermore, they explore the variety of experiences of populations forced from their homes and interned in civilian and POW camps in Europe and the United States, examining how music in these environments played a crucial role in maintaining ties to an idealized “home” and constructing politicized notions of national and ethnic identity. This fascinating, well-constructed volume of essays builds understanding of the role and importance of music during periods of conflict and highlights the unique aspects of music during World War II. “A collection that offers deeply informed, interdisciplinary, and original views on a myriad of musical practices in Europe, Great Britain, and the United States during the period.” —Gayle Magee, co-editor of Over Here, Over There: Transatlantic Conversations on the Music of World War I

Author : United States. Office of Price Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Rationing
ISBN : UOM:39015036908583

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Rationing in World War II. by United States. Office of Price Administration Pdf

Author : Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015023151304

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War Bulletin ... by Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service Pdf

Author : Dawn Bakken
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253056863

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Fighting Hoosiers by Dawn Bakken Pdf

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.

Author : Indiana. War History Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015744852

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Indiana in World War II. by Indiana. War History Commission Pdf

Author : Harold B. Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08
Category : Airplane factories
ISBN : 1945306165

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Home Front Warriors by Harold B. Morgan Pdf

Details"Home Front Warriors" is the third book in a series of Evansville and Tri-state history books by Harold Morgan. Previous books in this series are "Home Front Heroes" and "Home Town History". Evansvilleʼs most renowned WWII products were the P-47 Thunderbolt fighter and the Landing Ship Tank; the LST. This book endeavors to illustrate how the devoted employees built the components and assembled the P-47 and the LST. The authorʼs goal is to provide as many war-time production employee photos as space allowed.Harold Morgan lived the war years and a total of 15 years of his young life immediately west of the airport and Republic Aviation. The many test flights and machine-gun test firing sounds became common enough to the author as a child as to be generally unnoticed.After collecting 40,000 historical photos and images of various subjects, the author wants to use as many of his photo collection as possible. The author selected 500 of these photos to illustrate how these war winning products were built and used.

Author : Michael E. Weaver
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253004932

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Guard Wars by Michael E. Weaver Pdf

An inventive study of relations between the National Guard and the Regular Army during World War II, Guard Wars follows the Pennsylvania National Guard's 28th Infantry Division from its peacetime status through training and into combat in Western Europe. The broader story, spanning the years 1939--1945, sheds light on the National Guard, the U.S. Army, and American identities and priorities during the war years. Michael E. Weaver carefully tracks the division's difficult transformation into a combat-ready unit and highlights General Omar Bradley's extraordinary capacity for leadership -- which turned the Pennsylvanians from the least capable to one of the more capable units, a claim dearly tested in the Battle of the HÃ1⁄4rtgen Forest. This absorbing and informative analysis chronicles the nation's response to the extreme demands of a world war, and the flexibility its leaders and soldiers displayed in the chaos of combat.

Author : United States. Navy Department. Office of Information
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113784560

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State Summary of War Casualties, West Virginia by United States. Navy Department. Office of Information Pdf

Author : James Lachlan MacLeod
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625852069

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Evansville in World War II by James Lachlan MacLeod Pdf

During World War II, the city of Evansville manufactured vast amounts of armaments that were vital to the Allied victory. The Evansville Ordnance Plant made 96 percent of all .45-caliber ammunition used in the war, while the Republic Aviation Plant produced more than 6,500 P-47 Thunderbolts--almost half of all P-47s built during the war. At its peak, the local shipyard employed upward of eighteen thousand men and women who forged 167 of the iconic Landing Ship Tank vessels. In this captivating and fast-paced account, University of Evansville historian James Lachlan MacLeod reveals the enormous influence these wartime industries had on the social, economic and cultural life of the city.

Author : Ronald P. May
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439677865

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World War II Indiana Landmarks by Ronald P. May Pdf

World War II Indiana Landmarks features places throughout the state that played significant roles during World War II. Many of these locations memorialize those who fought as well as those who contributed to the war effort. These places of remembrance include historical sites, monuments, markers, museums, surviving buildings, a surviving Navy ship, a surviving plane, and more. Author Ronald P. May explores the rich historical backgrounds surrounding each location and tells the personal stories of veterans and civilians related to many of these locations.

Author : Steve Hardwick,Duane E. Hodgin
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781475966596

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WW II, Duty, Honor, Country by Steve Hardwick,Duane E. Hodgin Pdf

"This book was written to provide and preserve an oral history of the eighty-four men and women who were interviewed...sharing their memories of World War II. The stories include seventy-six veterans and eight women who served as USO volunteers, Red Cross service workers, a Holocaust survivor, and women who worked on the home front...All of the veterans and the women who served in various support roles have a connection to Indiana"--from the Preface.

Author : Ray E. Boomhower
Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : War photographers
ISBN : 0871951746

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One Shot by Ray E. Boomhower Pdf

Assigned to Yank, the weekly magazine written by and for enlisted men, John A. Bushemi, nicknamed "One Shot" for his ability to capture action on film, documented World War II through his photographs. The book captures Bushemi's early days photographing soldiers training at Fort Bragg in North Carolina to his frontline assignments among the grizzled American forces engaged in fighting in the Pacific.

Author : Yoshikuni Igarashi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400842988

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Bodies of Memory by Yoshikuni Igarashi Pdf

Japan and the United States became close political allies so quickly after the end of World War II, that it seemed as though the two countries had easily forgotten the war they had fought. Here Yoshikuni Igarashi offers a provocative look at how Japanese postwar society struggled to understand its war loss and the resulting national trauma, even as forces within the society sought to suppress these memories. Igarashi argues that Japan's nationhood survived the war's destruction in part through a popular culture that expressed memories of loss and devastation more readily than political discourse ever could. He shows how the desire to represent the past motivated Japan's cultural productions in the first twenty-five years of the postwar period. Japanese war experiences were often described through narrative devices that downplayed the war's disruptive effects on Japan's history. Rather than treat these narratives as obstacles to historical inquiry, Igarashi reads them along with counter-narratives that attempted to register the original impact of the war. He traces the tensions between remembering and forgetting by focusing on the body as the central site for Japan's production of the past. This approach leads to fascinating discussions of such diverse topics as the use of the atomic bomb, hygiene policies under the U.S. occupation, the monstrous body of Godzilla, the first Western professional wrestling matches in Japan, the transformation of Tokyo and the athletic body for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and the writer Yukio Mishima's dramatic suicide, while providing a fresh critical perspective on the war legacy of Japan.

Author : John C. Shively
Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780871952943

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Profiles in Survival by John C. Shively Pdf

The stories of seven men and one woman from Indiana who survived the horrors of captivity under the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II are captured in vivid detail. These Hoosiers were ordered to surrender following the fall of Bataan and Corregidor in 1942. It was the largest surrender of American armed forces in U.S. history and the beginning of three years of hell starting with the infamous Bataan Death March, facing brutal conditions in POW camps in the Philippines, and horrific journeys to Japan for some onboard what came to be known as “hellships.” Former Indiana governor Edgar D. Whitcomb, one of those featured in the book, notes that the American prisoners had to endure “unimaginable misery and brutality at the hands of sadistic Japanese guards,” as they were routinely beaten and many were executed for the most minor offenses, or for mere sport. In addition to Whitcomb, those profiled include Irvin Alexander, Harry Brown, William Clark, James Duckworth, Eleanor Garen, Melvin McCoy, and Hugh Sims.

Author : Ronald P. May
Publisher : Fideli Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1604148659

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Our Service, Our Stories - Indiana Veterans Recall Their World War II Experiences by Ronald P. May Pdf

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the conclusion of World War II in 1945. Of the 16 million service members who fought in that war, it is estimated that only 855,000 are still alive today. What's more, those survivors are dying off at a rate of almost 500 each day. The rush is on to capture as many of their stories as possible, while some of them are still with us. In Our Service, Our Stories, 36 veterans from Indiana recall their experiences of military service during World War II - what they saw, heard, said, felt and did. And how they got on with their lives after the war. This is their service. These are their stories.