Not in Vain : A Rifleman Remembers World War II /

Growing up in a small college town in central Mississippi in the 1930s, Leon C. Standifer knew little of the trauma of war. But by the time he was nineteen, World War II had made war a reality for him. Standifer volunteered for and was accepted by a special army program that would send him to colleg...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Standifer, Leon C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1992.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Standifer, Leon C.
United States. > Army.
États-Unis. > Army > Biographies.
United States. > Army > Biography.
Soldiers.
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Soldiers > United States > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American.
United States.
Personal narratives > American.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Growing up in a small college town in central Mississippi in the 1930s, Leon C. Standifer knew little of the trauma of war. But by the time he was nineteen, World War II had made war a reality for him. Standifer volunteered for and was accepted by a special army program that would send him to college for technical training; he somtimes hoped and sometimes feared that the war would end before his training did. Events turned out quite otherwise. A serious shortage of trained riflemen needed for the invasion of Normandy meant that Standifer and more than one hundred thousand other young men were.
Physical Description:1 online resource (232 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780807161517

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