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American Warriors: Five Presidents in the Pacific Theater of WWII
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by Duane T. Hove
Sales Rank: 1011510
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List Price: $24.95
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 224 pages
Published by: Burd Street Press October 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1572493070
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1572493070
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Book Description
Five United States presidents served their country as Naval Reserve officers in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Presidential biographies gloss over this important period of their lives and are often inaccurate. American Warriors reconstructs the presidents' wartime roles based on interviews with more than one hundred veterans and on primary sources such as action reports, ships' logs, war diaries, and letters.
Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy were commissioned officers before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford sought and received officers commissions in 1942. George H. W. Bush entered the Naval Reserve as a seaman, second class, after graduating from high school in 1942 and was commissioned in June 1943 during flight training.
During the war, Johnson conducted an inspection tour of MacArthurs newly formed Southwest Pacific command and embarked as an observer on a bombing mission over New Guinea. Kennedy skippered two PT boats in the Solomon Islands, one of which was lost in a collision with a Japanese destroyer. Nixon commanded ground aviation support units in the Solomon Islands. Ford, officer of the deck of the light aircraft carrier USS Monterey, survived an encounter with a deadly typhoon. Bush, flying off the light aircraft carrier USS San Jacinto, parachuted to safety and was rescued at sea when his TBM Avenger fighter-bomber was shot down over Chichi Jima in the Bonin Islands.
Publisher Description
Duane Hoves five years of research and interviews shed new light on this period of our leaders history. His accounts provide detailed descriptions, void of folklore, of the presidents wartime military service.
Featured Presidents:
John F. Kennedy
Lynden B. Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
Gerald R. Ford
George H. W. Bush
Reader Reviews
In his year-end column for World War II Magazine, book review editor Robert Citino selected American Warriors as one of the best World War II books of the year. I agree. History books should be informative, accurate and readable; American Warriors is all of these and more. The author brings to light the military careers of five of our recent presidents, highlighting their naval service in the Pacific. Extensively end-noted, American Warriors draws on interviews with more than 100 veterans who served with the presidents as well as on a comprehensive bibliography of primary sources. Folklore has no place in this well-researched book. Presidential scholars will find it a dependable resource; more casual readers will find it swift paced and enjoyable. I highly recommend American Warriors.
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