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050 00 $aD769.85.A7$bA75 2003
082 00 $a940.53/791$221
245 00 $aArizona goes to war :$bthe home front and the front lines during World War II /$cedited by Brad Melton and Dean Smith, with a foreword by Senator John McCain and an introduction by Marshall Trimble.
260 $aTucson :$bUniversity of Arizona Press,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $axxi, 233 pages :$billustrations, maps, portraits ;$c27 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 203-211) and index.
505 00 $tForeword /$rJohn McCain -- $tPreface /$rBrad Melton -- $tAcknowledgments /$rBrad Melton -- $tIntroduction /$rMarshall Trimble -- $g1.$tPrelude to War /$rBrad Melton -- $g2.$tDay of Infamy /$rJane Eppinga -- $g3.$tArizona Divided /$rAndrew B. Russell -- $g4.$tWomen and the War Effort /$rDiane Burke Fessler -- $g5.$tAmerican Indians and the War Effort /$rSharon S. Magee -- $g6.$tMilitary Bases Everywhere /$rDean Smith -- $g7.$tThe War on the Home Front /$rMary Melcher -- $g8.$tPrisoners of War /$rLloyd Clark -- $g9.$tArizona's War Heroes /$rMarshall Trimble -- $g10.$tVictory and Beyond /$rCarol Osman Brown -- $tConclusion: Four Critical Years /$rDean Smith -- $gApp.$tA Traveler's Guide to Arizona's World War II Sites by Erik Berg.
520 1 $a"It was a cold gray morning in northeast France when Pfc. Silvestre Herrera's unit came under heavy fire from a Nazi artillery barrage. Armed with only a hand grenade and his M1 rifle. Herreta fixed his bayonet and mounted a one-man charge, single-handedly capturing eight German soldiers, then killing two more and pinning down the enemy despite having had both feet blown off by a mine.
520 8 $aA few months later he was back home in Phoenix when the telegram arrived notifying him that he was to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor." "Silvestre was just one of Arizona's sons and daughters who answered their country's call in World War II. Their exploits - and the adventures of those on the homefront - are now celebrated in a book that brings that era engagingly to life.".
520 8 $a"Arizona Goes to War takes readers back to a time when military installations sprang up all over the state as thousands of airmen arrived to train in Arizona's clear desert skies, and when soldiers destined for North Africa came to get their first taste of desert sands.
520 8 $aIn its pages, readers will learn not only of the green recruits who passed through Arizona, but also of the state's Native Americans who registered for the draft in record numbers, of Japanese Americans unjustly incarcerated in desert detention centers, and of ordinary citizens who did their bit for the war effort."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zArizona.
651 0 $aArizona$xHistory$y1912-1950.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007187
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, American.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113356
700 1 $aMelton, Brad,$d1971-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002041224
700 1 $aSmith, Dean,$d1923-2012.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79106254
852 00 $boff,glx$hD769.85.A7$iA75 2003