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The Jersey brothers : a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home
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The Jersey brothers : a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home / Sally Mott Freeman.
ISBN
9781501104145
1501104144
9781501104169
1501104160
9781501104176
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publication
New York : Simon & Schuster, [2017]
Physical Description
xiv, 588 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes
Maps on lining papers.
Summary
Documents the extraordinary story of three brothers in World War II, describing the rescue mission launched by the elder two when their youngest brother was declared missing in action in the Philippines.
"They are three brothers, all navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of World War II's most crucial moments. Bill is tapped by Franklin D. Roosevelt to run the first Map Room in Washington. Benny is the gunnery and antiaircraft officer on the USS Enterprise, one of the only ships to escape Pearl Harbor and, by the end of 1942, the last aircraft carrier left in the Pacific to defend against the Japanese. Barton, the youngest, gets a plum commission in the Navy Supply Corps because his mother wants him out of harm's way. But this protection plan backfires when Barton is sent to the Philippines and listed as missing-in-action after a Japanese attack. Now it is up to Bill and Benny to rescue him. Based on ten years of research drawn from archives around the world, interviews with fellow shipmates and POWs, and letters half-forgotten in basements, The Jersey Brothers whisks readers from America's front porches to Roosevelt's White House, from Pearl Harbor to Midway and Bataan, and from the Pacific battlefronts to the stately home of a fierce New Jersey mother. At its heart The Jersey Brothers is a family story, written by one of its own in intimate, novelistic detail. It is a remarkable tale of agony and triumph; of an ordinary young man who shows extraordinary courage as the enemy does everything short of killing him; and of brotherly love tested under the tortures of war."--Jacket.
Other formats
Online version: Freeman, Sally Mott, author. Jersey brothers First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, [2017]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-574).
Contents
April 1942, Luzon, the Philippines
Benny
Helen
Bill
Cabanatuan, Spring 1942
White House Map Room, April 1942
"This force is bound for Tokyo"
Barton, 1930-1941
The perils of escape-and a little baseball
A brother's burden: the search
Midway
Under siege: JN-25
To Davao: en avant!
And then there was one: USS Enterprise vs. Japan
The other war: Army-Navy football
Happy days at the penal colony
Winter's grief
Escape: crime and punishment
Farewell to the White House
A tale of atrocities
August 1943: Allied War Summit, Quebec, Canada
Revenge on the innocent and a covert plan
Secrets inside the oxygen tent
Hero of Bataan vs. the War Department
Bad tidings
Politics in Brisbane
"Proceed to Kwajalein"
The best-laid plans
Initiation at Saipan
Decampment
September 1944, Lilac Hedges
Hopes dashed
Setbacks
Through a prism: MacArthur's return
What Benny knew
The Oryoko Maru
End game in the Pacific
A sailor's nightmare
In the end, a question of casualties
and sea power
No peace at Lilac Hedges
Final hours.
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