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Hawaii Goes to War: The Aftermath of Pearl Harbor
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by Wilbur D., Jr. Jones, Carroll Robbins Jones, and Wilbur D. Jones
Sales Rank: 803209
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List Price: $14.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 150 pages
Published by: White Mane Publishing Company April 23, 2001
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1572492600
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1572492608
Book Dimensions:
11.1 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
Weighs: 1.3 pounds
Bookpage, June 2001
"offers a unique look at how the military and civilians on the island coped with the crisis."
Book Description
For six months following the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii rearmed and awaited the inevitable. Patricia O'Meara Robbins, a professional photographer, documented everyday life as the shocked Oahu community recovered from one attack and prepared for another. In Hawaii Goes to War, the Joneses skillfully interweave Carroll's childhood remembrances and her mother's photographs with the history of the fleet salvage operations that enabled the navy to take on the Japanese armed forces. They follow the war from Pearl Harbor to the battles of the Coral Sea that led up to the triumph of Midway.
Reader Reviews
This book is essentially a manuscript of memoirs, (the impression I had was a thesis) written by the daughter of a Naval officer stationed at Pearl. The day-to-day details of pre-war life in Hawaii (considered an exotic location to most Americans in the early '40s) are well described. The civilian impressions of post-attack Honolulu are also the strengths of this work. The book is less successful as it attempts to describe the progress of the war. It probably would have been better to relate the war news "as heard" at the time, and the ups and downs of civilian morale dealing with the news, and the thousands of servicemen descending on the islands. All in all, a fairly good read, but not an in-depth memoir of civilian life in wartime Hawaii.
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