To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race : The Story of the Only African-American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II /
I would have climbed up a mountain to get on the list [to serve overseas]. We were going to do our duty. Despite all the bad things that happened, America was our home. This is where I was born. It was where my mother and father were. There was a feeling of wanting to do your part.--Gladys Carter, m...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[1996]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- List of Tables and Figures
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A Changing Military Structure
- 3. Fight Our Battles and Claim Our Victories
- 4. Just American Soldiers Going to Do a Job
- 5. Serving in the European Theater of Operations, January 1945-March 1946
- 6. Life after Military Service
- 7. Cohesion, Conflict, and Phenomenology
- 8. Epilogue
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index