The Women Who Lived For Danger, by Marcus Binney

The Women Who Lived For Danger: Behind Enemy Lines During WWII, by Marcus Binney
Perennial, 2002 (first published in England)
337 pages, plus 16 pages of b&w photos, Notes on Sources, Glossary, Bibliography and Index

Description
"They flirted with men, and with death." In The Women Who Lived For Danger, acclaimed historian Marcus Binney recounts the story of ten remarkable women-some famous, some virtually unknown-recruited to work behind enemy lines as secret agents during WWII. Part of Winston Churchill's Special Operations Executive, formed in 1940 to "set Europe ablaze", the women of the SOE were trained to handle guns and explosives, work undercover, endure interrogation by the Gestapo, and use complex codes.

Once in enemy territory, theirs was the most dangerous war of all, leading an apparently normal civilian life but in constant danger of arrest and execution. Passing themselves off as country wenches by afternoon and chic Parisiennes by night, these women put service to Britain and the Allied forces above all concerns for public safety-they organized dropping grounds for arms and explosives destined for the Resistance, helped operate escape lines for airmen who had been shot down over Europe, and provided Allied Command with vital intelligence.

The exploits of those chronicled in The Women Who Lived For danger form a new chapter of heroism in the history of warfare matched only by their legacy of daring, determination, resourcefulness and ability to stay cool in the face of extreme danger.

Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on SOE
1. Recruitment and Training
2. An Agent's Life
3. Christina Graville
4. Virginia Hall
5. Lise de Baissac
6. Noor Inayat Khan
7. Pear Witherington
8. Paddy O'Sullivan
9. Violette Szabo
10. Marguerite "Peggy" Knight
11. Paola del Din
12. Alix d'Unienville
Epilogue
Note on Sources
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Photos
Christina Granville
Virginia Hall
Christina Granville and Andrew Kennedy
Christina Granville, and the Maquis: Gilbert Galetti, Captain Patrick O'Regan, Captain John Roper, and Captain Leonard Hamilton
Noor Inayat Khan
Lise de Baissac
Violette Szabo
Pearl Witherington
Paddy O'Sullivan
Paola del Din
Paola del Din
Paola del Din and two unidentified men
Peggy Knight
Lela Karayanni
Alix d'Unienville ans unidentified men
Hannah Senesh
Yvonne Rudellat
Vera Atkins

Aircraft Down, by Philip D. Caine

Aircraft Down!: Evading Capture in WWII Europe, by Philip D. Caine
Brassey's, 1997
274 pages, plus A Note on Sources, and Index. B&W photos scattered throughout book.
Library:

Description
Aircraft Down! recounts six extraordinary evasion adventures that took place in Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Albania and Greece during WWII. In 1944 alone, nearly 30,000 American airmen survived bailing out or of crash landing their aircraft in Europe. The great majority were captured immediately. A few lucky ones beat tremendous odds and managed to evade their Fascist pursuers.

These thrilling stories are told by an authority on pilot survival, escape and evasion. Noted aviator author and retired Air Force pilot Philip D. Caine based his work on official USAAF after-action reports and on extensive interviews with the airmen and some of the courageous Europeans who helped them at the risk of their own lives. In several cases, he retraced the actual evasion routes himself, and he has provided maps and photos that enable the reader [to] follow the downed airmen's actual footsteps.

These suspenseful, personal accounts of heroism, resourcefulness and sacrifice will appeal to everyone with a taste for true stories of courage in the face of grave danger.

Table of Contents
Preface
1. The Situation
2. "The Drinks Are on Me"
3. "My God, I Thought You Were Dead"
4. "Find the Amerikanische Flieger!"
5. "Please, God, Help Me Get out of this!"
6. "All Present and Accounted For"
7. "I Was So Close"
8. The Art of Evasion and Survival
A Note on Sources
Index

Maps
Map of Europe with routes of Smith, Willis, Doorly and Coen
British Army spearhead - Irish Guards Sep 3, 1944
Sonny Fassoulis' route through Italy

Photos
--Oscar Coen, RAF Intelligence officer Roland Robertson, American Eagle squadron pilot Michael G. McPharlin
--Squadron 133, RAF Fighter Command: Eric Doorly, Dick Godmundsen, Gilbert Omens, Bill Slade, Colburn KingDon ambert, Don Gentile
--Bob Smith, Ben DeHaven and Dennis Smith, Biggin Hill RAF base spring 1942
--Eric Doorly, Don Ross, Edwin Taylor, fall 1944
--D. K. Willis' P-38 crash-landed near Od-Gastel, Holland
--Kuppens family: Sjef, Jan, Bert, Marinus
--DK Willis with British Spitfire
--Yvonne "Monique" Bienfait and GEorge Vogel
--Robert Priser atop P-47 at Debden in 1943
--Jules Rousseau
--Jane Rousseau
--Priser's false papers
--Priser in disguise as Belgian technician Robert Wosswinkel
--Maurice DeVroom and Priser in Rode St Genese in 1944
--Albert Abrassard
--B-17 crew, taken in Nebraska: Lt Walker, Dick Flournoy, Jim Wagner, Ernie Skorheim, Bob Steel, Sgt Troy, Tom Reich, Russ Leonard, Fred Glor, Jim Farley
--1996 photo of Greeks who helped B-17 crew escape: Bobbies Koulouris, Ioanis Kouluris, Nikos Koulouris, Alexis Monastiriotis, Ageliki Monastiriotis
Alex and Harry Pappas
--Fred Glor, Eddie Novak, Dick Flournoy, Philip Nind, Ian Anderson, Ken Smith, Bob Steel, Ernie Skorheim, Russ Leonard, Jack Farley, Joe Cotton, Jim Wagner, Tom Reich,
Ken Smith
--Joe Cotton and 3 unidentified Greek messengers
--Sonny Fassoulis in 1942
--Nazarene Franchescino during WWII
--Sonny Fassoulis in 1996
--John Hall
--Fernando Franchescino and Fassoulis in September 1996

Voices From the Camps, by Larry Dane Brimner

Voices From the Camps: Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II, by Larry Dane Brimner
Franklin Watts, 1994
95 pages, plus 32 b&w photos, Source Notes, Glossary, Selected Bibliography
Library: 940.53 BRI

Front matter
The bombing of Pear Harbor by the Japanese air force on December 7, 1941 which crippled the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet and killed more than 2,400 American sailors, is well known. However, another casualty of the attack on Pear Harbor has, until recently, been ignored. Within hours of the bombing, some Japanese Americans were taken into custody by the FBI for no other reason than their race. Ten weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed an executive order that permitted a roundup of Japanese Americans. With total disregard for the Bill of Rights, 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry - two-thirds of them citizens-were forced out of their homes and into so-called relocation centers, the government's term for prison camps. Their only crime was their Japanese origin. The other casualty of Pearl Harbor was the legal rights and their freedom of Japanese Americans.

Although Germany and Italy declared war on the United States three days after Pearl Harbor, Americans of German and Italian origins were never suspected of disloyalty, much less herded into prison camps. And none other than J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, declared that there was no basis for suspicion of Japanese Americans disloyalty. The cruel treatment of the Japanese Americans during WWII had only one cause - racism.

In this moving book, Japanese Americans tell in their own words of their experiences during the evacuation to internment camps. Many Japanese small-business owners were forced to sell, at cut-rate prices, the enterprises they had spent their lives building. Children spent their formative years in barracks surrounded by barbed wire. In some cases, entire families were torn apart.

The many voices from the camps in this book remind Americans of a part of their history that until recently has been ignored.

Table of Contents
1. A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
2. Not Bona Fide Citizens
3. It Just Couldn't Happen in a Democracy
4. Democracy Can Be An Illusion
5. Even God in Heaven is Crying For Us
6. To Become Equal With Others
7. I Don't Want Any of Them Here
8. The Burden of Shame
Afterword
Source Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index

Photos
--Chine workers building railroad, unidentified location
--Unidentified Japanese farmers in California
--6 Japanese picture brides and unidentified American officials
--Ships in Pearl Harbor on fire, Dec 7, 1941
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt and unidentified official
--unidentified FBI agent, Japanese man and woman
--Wanto Co, "I am an American" sign
--Asahi Dyeworks
--Relocation Orders posted
--5 unidentified Japanese Americans in line
--Hayami's Nursery and Pansy Gardens for sale
--Unidentified Japanese family waiting to go to relocation center
--Unidentified Nisei boy
--Unidentified Nisei getting on buses
----Unidentified mother and two children
--Two unidentified children
--Unidentified internment camp, with armed soldiers waiting
--Unidentified Japanese couple
--Unidentified Japanese teens behind barbed wire
--Unidentified Nisei girls going to school
--Unidentified Nisei couples dancing
--Unidentified Nisei translators (male and female)
--Unidentified Japanese watchmaker
--Nisei troops in Italy
--Nisei soldier visits internment camp
--General Joseph Stillwell presenting medal to Mary Masuda, sister of Sergeant Kazuo Masuda, unidentified Japanese and American officers in background
--unidentified Japanese signing papers to return to Japan
--Gordon Hirabayashi
--unidentified family members of Minoru Yasui
--Attorney General Richard Thornburgh presenting checks to elderly Japanese internment victims
--Camp cemetery at Manzanar

Pack of Thieves, By Richard Z. Chesnoff

Pack of Thieves: How Hitler and Europe Plundered the Jews and Committed the Greatest Theft in History, By Richard Z Chesnoff
Doubleday, 1999
281 pages plus Afterword, Notes, Bibliography, Acknowledgments and Index
16 photographs (2 sets of 8 pages
Library: 940.53 CHE

Front Matter
It was the largest organized robbery in history-the detailed, systematic looting of Europe's Jews by the azis and most of the nations of Europe: Axis, Allied and neutral. Now, for the first time, prizewinning journalist Richard Z Chesnoff details the full scope of this monumental theft of money, gold, jewels, art, and property that began in Germany with the rise of Adolf Hitler, continued through the Holocaust and the Third Reich's occupation of Europe, and culminated in a postwar cloaking campaign that stretched from Scandinavia to the Balkans to Iberia.

Chesnoff, who was among the first reporters to break the story that Swiss banks were still hoarding the assets of Holocaust victims, traveled to fourteen countries to research this heart-breaking, compelling story of human greed. With direct access to hitherto classified files and through exclusive interviews with bankers, government and Jewish officials, camp survivors, and the families of the victims, Chesnoff tells a tragic tale that will make the headlines of tomorrow's newspapers.

Revealing new details that many governments and bankers would prefer to remain secret, he describes the detective work work used to trace Holocaust survivors that continue to be hidden inside the systems of Allied nations such as France and the Netherlands. With the deftness that comes with a journalist's deep understanding of events, Chesnoff explains why it has taken more than fifty years for the world to even begin to come to terms with the massive pillage and plunder.

Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Germany: The Plunder Plot
2. Austria: Last Year at Mauerbach
3. Czechoslovakia:
--Czech Republic - The Ganef of Prague
--Slovakia: The Shops on Main Street
4. The Netherlands: Loot Thy Neighbor
5. Traitors in their Midst
6. France: Les Biens des Juifs
7. Eastern Europe: Plundering the Killing Fields
--Poland: Forever Strangers
--Hungary: The Bloody Danube
8. Switzerland: Neighbors Make Good Fences
9. The Other Neutrals
--Spain and Portugal: Playing Both Sides
--Sweden: All in the Family
--Argentina: Latin Safehaven
--Turkey: Booty Bazaar
The Vatican: See No Evil
10. Restitution: Righting Wrongs
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index

Photos
--Day after Kristallnacht, removing name from Jewish-owned store
--Drawing by 12-year old Helga Weissova
--Scrip money issued to Jews
--form postcard fro Theresienstadt
--moving van owned by Dutch Puls company
--Unidentified Jewish businessman and agents of Property Administration and Annuities Institute
--Hermann Goering leaves Goudstikker Art Gallery, Amsterdam, 1940
--Nazi scrip for use in Westbork detention center
--7 unidentified members of Lippmann-Rosenthal, playing cards
--Unidentified Dutch Jews boarding trains bound for death camps
--Norwegian Nazi Rolf Svindal
--"Le Juif et la France: Prochainement". Anti-Jewish exhibit in Paris, 1942
--Old Jewish Frenchman wearing yellow star
--unidentified Frenchmen in August 1941
---unidentified Vichy authorities seal door of confiscated apartment
--Fanny Cukier anf her children, Ginette and Irene. Before being sent to Auschwitz
--Joseph Zajdenberg, wife Anna, daughter Claudia in 1936
--Unidentified people in front of Austerlitz camp warehouse in Paris
--Hans Biebow and unidentified official
--Nazi scrip issued for use in Lodz ghetto
--Unidentified Jew about to be killed, and two unidentified Croatian Ustae troops
--Unidentified Jewish women sorting clothing near Chelmno
--1938 photo of Great Tlomackie reform synagogue in Warsaw (destroyed in 1943)
--The Blue tower (on the site today)
--unidentified Hungarian peasants
--Argentinean First Lady Evita Peron dancing in Berne with Swiss Foreign Minister Max Petitpierre, 1947
--Lisa Mikova
--American banker Thomas McKittrick, Japan's Y. Yamamoto, Nazi Germany's Paul Hechler, plud four other unidentified banking officials
--Bundles of loot in Merkur salt mine
--Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower,, Omar Bradley and George Patton inspecting stolen art, April 12, 1945
Israel Singer, Edgar Bronfam, Elan Steinberg
--US Undersecretary of State Stuart Eizenstat, British Foreign Minister Robin Cook, 1998 London Gold Conference
--Thomas Borer, head of the Swiss Task Force on Holocaust Assets

Duty, Honor, Applause, by Bloomfield, Shain and Davidson

Duty, Honor, Applause: America's Entertainers in WWII
by Gary L. Bloomfield, Stacie L. Shain, with Arlen C. Davidson
The Lyons Press, 2004
496 pages including bibliography. No index
Library: 940.53 BLO

Table of Contents
1. The Great War and Prelude to WWII
2. The Axis Powers Plunge Into War
3. A Despicable Act: Tin Pan Alley Sings Red, White and Blue
4. Thousands Sign Up For "The Duration": Entertainers Bolster Troop Morale; War Bonds: Americans Chip in TO Support the Cause
5. Defense Plants Gear Up for War: Radio Reinforces the Message; Hollywood and the Canteen
6. The Pacific Rim: The USO "Drafts" Soldiers in Greasepaint
7. Nazi U-boats Terrorize the Atlantic: Broadway and the Stage Door Canteen
8. Fighting in the Mediterranean: "Spooks" of the OSS
9. Chasing the Foe Across the Pacific: Wounded Vets Cope; Hollywood Rallies the Country
10. Allied Bombers Hit Fortress Europe: "Celluloid Commandos" Advance Military Training Frame By Frame
11. Turning Point of the Twentieth Century: The Invasion of Fortress Europe
12. Turning the Tide in the Pacific: Pinup Girls Show "T & A" Weapons Don't Refer to Tanks and Artillery
13. The Final Push Across the Rhine: The Defiant ans Unstoppable Marlene; V-Discs Bring Harmony to Cacophony of War
14. The Bombing Campaign over Japan
15. Returning Home...Finally
Bibliography
(Table of Contents calls out Index, but there isn't one.)

Photos
--Battery C of the 6th Field Artillery, two unidentified soldiers
--1st Army Post All Colored Band - 39 members of the band, unidentified
--Pilot William Wellman in front of plane
--Private TP Loughlin, 69th Regiment, National guard, wife and child
--A. C. Gibbons and Mae Marsh, Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand, 1918
--US Troops marching through Paris, Independence Day 1917. At least 3 recognizable but unidentified
--Dorothy Gish and unidentified actor, The Greatest Things in Life
--DW Griffith filming Hearts of the World (1917)
--Hedy Lamarr and 20 unidentified soldiers
--Charlie Chaplin and 5 unidentified actora, Shoulder Arms
--March 7, 1936 German soldiers marching into Rhineland. About 20 unidentified soldiers
--Henry Fonda
--Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler and unidentified man in front of Eiffel Tower
--Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Navy lieutenant
--About 20 unidentified Japanese soldiers celebrating in Singapore
--girl presenting wreath to Adolph Hitler, one unidentified man, rest unidentified
--German storm trooper in front of Jewish shop
--Lew Ayres, All Quiet on the Western Front
--American Nazi Party, 1939. About 6 identifiable but unidentifiable men at the front of a column of men
--Orson Welles, performing "The War of the Worlds" radio show
--Two "Schulstad lads" listening to the radio
--Gary Cooper as Alvin York
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt signing declaration of war
--Black newspaper boy with "Japs Declare War" headline
--About 20 unidentified American sailors listening to radio
--Two unidentified Japanese soldiers celebrating fall of Singapore
--Sailors laying wreaths at Pearl Harbor. Unidentified.
--Jimmy Cagney and four unidentified women in Yankee Doodle Dandy
--American and Filipino soldiers at Bataan with coastal gun. Unidentified.
--Robert Taylor in pilot gear in front of plane
--Irving Berlin
--Kate Smith, a few unidentified musicians
--Frank Loesser in uniform
--Captain Glenn Miller
--Glenn Miller and unidentified band members
--Black jazz band, unidentified musicians
--Unidentified Navy recruit crawling through log obstacle
--Four unidentified soldiers going through boot camp
--Three unidentified soldiers training on Browning .50 caliber flexible machine gun
--Two marines, one black, training at Mont Ford Point
--Unidentified infantrymen being inspected on parade in Hawaii
--John Craven on portable radio
--Aircorpsmen with bayonets, unidentified
--Sabu Dastagir
--Clark Gable with ammo belts
--WC Fields, Paulette Goddard, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy
--Tyrone Power, Crash Dive, 1943
--Three unidentified marines in North Carolina
--Sterling Hayden, aiming rifle
--2nd Lt McDonald Carey and unidentified soldier at Cherry Point
--Robert Stack in uniform
--Guy Madison in uniform
--Eddie Peabody with banjo and two unidentified musicians on board ship
--Seaman Second Class Jackie Cooper on drums, with three unidentified women in the Marine Corps
--Faye McKenzie, Billy Gilbert, and unidentified showgirl
--Carole Lombard dancing jitterbug with PFC Joseph Schneeburg, unidentified trumpet player
--4 unidentified WAVES and Victor Mature in the Coast Guard
--The Andrews Sisters in Over There
--Beryl Wallace and 3 un-identified soldiers from Western Signal Aviation Unit
--Rosalind Russell, brother George, and two unidentified soldiers, Camp Bowie, TX
--Private Don Byrnes and Alice Swanson, dancing
--Lena Horne and five black soldiers of the 92nd infantry division
--Carmen Miranda and Sergeant Anthony M Lopilato, Indianapolis
--Jimmy Stewart in uniform
--Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, and an unidentified Russian
--Carole Lombard for Buy Bonds
--Irving Berlin and Michael Curtiz
--Laurel and Hardy at a USO show, 1943
--Mae West, and unidentified man and woman
--Ronald Reagan in uniform, Jane Wyman, and daughter
--Lana Turner
--Gene Tierney and 6 unidentified drill sergeants
--Danny Kaye and unidentified woman
--Jack Benny and a few recognizable but unidentified soldiers
--Paulette Goddard and four unidentified actresses, I Love A Soldier
--Five factory women, unidentified (wearing goggles)
--Two unidentified women, one unidentified soldier
--Two women in aircraft repair shop
--Four Secretaries of War poster, women models not identified
--Two black women welders
--GI Cookie Girl - unidentified
--Two unidentified WAVES and two women
--Unidentified mother looking at photo of her sons
--Two unidentified women modeling factory-safe clothing
--Martha Bryant and Eulalie Hampden (black women bolt cutters) 1943
--Pete Seeger and several unidentified sailors, both black and white
--Gene Autry in cockpit
--Four unidentified male radio actors
--Eve Arden and unidentified actor/soldier
--Mickey Rooney, Sergeant Bill Stewart, Tom Poston, and unidentified Signal Corps officer
--Humphrey Bogart, Jack Brown and Lauren Bacall
--Martha Wilkerson - GI Jill
--Lena Horne on Jubilee
--Betty Hutton and Jimmy Durante
--Ann Sheridan
--Janet Blair
--Major Mann Holiner with Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore
--Bob Hope and Frances Langford
--7 Hollywood 5th graders, unidentified
--Janet Blair cooking
--Ann Sothern, Hedy Lamarr, and Linda Darnell
--Olivia de Havilland with an unidentified soldier, Marine and sailor
--Maria Montez and Gloria Jean with typewriters
--Colonel Philip "Flip" Cochran
--Merle Oberon with 3 unidentified soldiers
--Joe E. Brown in China with four unidentied troops
--band leader Artie Shaw
--Lt. James Doolittle and his bomber crews, all unidentified
--Spencer Tracy, 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
--General C. L. Chennault with Ann Sheridan and Mary Landa
--Gene Autry with unidentified soldier
--One unidentified Muleskinner leading mule through water
--Jackie Coogan and several unidentified glider pilots
--Four Merrill's Marauders, unidentified
--Lili Pons, Andre Kostelanetz and a few unidentified soldiers, plus an unidentified Chinese (monk(?))
--Ann Sheridan
--Pat O'Brien with sword, unidentified man
--Errol Flynn, Objective Burma
--A pilot and mechanic of the Flying Tigers
--6 members of an American mortar crew in the Aleutian islands
--Narjorie Reynolds with two soldiers in the Aleutians
--Marine Corps Photographic Field Officer Louis Hayward
--Black woman and three black soldiers at a USO Club
--Two soldiers and a woman in USO club
--Martha Tilton and a few unidentified GIs, Cape Gloucester, July 1944
--Eddie Bracken, two other men and five women entertainers, unidentified
--Jeanne Darrell and TEch-4 Leon Blackley in Liberia
--Mrs and Mrs Jim Dodd, Pat O'Brien Betty Yeaton and Jinx Falkenberg on plane from china to India
--Jerry Colonna
--Frances Langford
--Ann Sheridan and six unidentified GIs
--Miss America 1945, Bess Myerson
--Two unidentified sailors
--Four unidentified sailors in racks
--Five unidentified sailors in racks
--Joan Blondell and three unidentified soldiers
--Victor Mature on Coast Guard cutter
--Artie Shaw and unidentified sailors on ship
--Marlene Dietrich and 5 unidentified men and 1 woman, Greenland
--4 unidentified WACs boarding ship
--Ilana Massey and several unidentified soldiers
--Robert Taylor in uniform with unidentified Naval inspector
--3 GIs in drag, This is the Army
--Ethel Merman and unidentified naval officer on ship
--Alfred Lunt, Lynne Fontanne and unidentified actress
--Unidentified sailors and entertainer at Stage Door Canteen
--Unidentified chorus girls
--Katherine Cornell in jeep
--Unidentified soldiers marching ashore in North Africa
--6 unidentified GIs on a cargo ship
--Douglas Fairbanks, jr, King George of England, and 2 other unidentified officers
--Joe Pellegrino and Italian musicians at a POW camp
--Private Dick Vaus
--Bob Hope, Frances Langford and unidentified GI
--Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca
--Henry Fonda, The Immortal Sergeant
--Nartha Raye and 6 unidentified GIs
--Martha Raye in tank in North Africa, with 23 unidentified soldiers
--2 paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne, plus 2 unidentifiable ones
--2 GIs seated at war memorial in Brolon on Sicily
--3 Tuskegee Airforce Pilots
--4 soldiers with a gun by the Arno River
--General Patton, Bob Hope, Frances Langford, two unidentified soldiers
--Mussolini and Hitler in car with unidentified soldier
--4 unidentified soldiers walking through Caiazzo
--OSS officer Sterling Hayden
--Petr Ortiz in uniform
--Three soldiers paddling down Gira River, New Years Eve 1942
--Soldier in the South Pacific
--Corporal George Avram and Dorothy Fay
--Joe E Brown and a Fiji Islander
-- Column of marine raiders with dogs. A few of those in front are recognizable but unidentified
--Unidentified Leatherneck on Peleliu
--unidentifified Army medic, three unidentified Sicilian women villagers
--Lee Marvin as a Marine
--Red Skelton performing before unidentified Marines
--Al Jolson performing before unidentified soldiers
--Unidentified Army medic patches up unrecognizable GI
--Bob Hope, Jerry Colonna, Frances Langford, and Bing Crosby with unidentified woman and two soldiers in veteran's hospital
--Esther Williams being held up by 2 GIs
--Army Sergeant Harold Russell with 2 artificial arms
--Elmer Davis
--Irving Berlin and various unidentified singers, This is the Army
--Tyrone Power in uniform
--Ginger Rogers
--Unidentified elderly German woman looking at rubble while unidentifiable American GIs walk past
--Jimmy Stewart and four unidentified crewmembers
--Clark Gable leaning out of bomber window
--Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goering
--Bob Hope and three unidentified English women
--Unidentified English man and woman watching the skies
--Hazel Scott
--Jane Froman and Don Ross, her husband
--Leslie Howard, two unidentified men
--Glenn Miller and unidentified woman
--Unidentified bomber crew praying
--Two unidentified mechanics
--Two girls and a boy seated on the rubble of their home
--Unidentified Flying Fortress crew squeezed into a jeep
--Leslie Howard
--Signal Corps Lt Colonel Frank Capra, awarded medal from General George Marshall
--Unidentified waist gunner aboard B-17 Flying Fortress
--General Hap Arnold, three unidentified civilians
--Major General William Porter, Walt Disney, and unidentified soldier
--Three unidentified actors/soldiers in Three Cadets training film
--Jimmy Stewart and five unidentified crewmen, Winning Your Wings
--Clark Gable and two unidentifed crewmembers
--Gene Kelly, US Navy
--William Wyler and unidentified man, both in uniform
--Frank Capra, unidentified man and woman
--Frank Capra in uniform
--John Ford
--John Huston with unidentified film crew
--A photo which is supposed to have John Huston on the left, only it sure doesn't look like him, and 3 other uniformed individuals
--three Dachau prisoners
--William Wyler, Sy Bartlett, John Huston and Anatole Litvak, all in uniform
--John Wayne, Reunion in France
--Two unidentified GIs
--A dozen or so unidentified GIs in a landing craft
--Unidentified GIs
--Unidentified GIs
--3 unidentified paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division
--Soldier firing big gun
--Unidentified GIs entering town
--Navy Lt John Cox Jr (actor John Howard)
--Edward G. Robinson entertaining troops
--Bing Crosby, Broderick Crawford, Corporal Colin Framptom and Corporal Doug Marshall, radio program "Mark Up the Map"
--Josephine Baker
--Unidentified American and Filipino soldiers crossing the Pasig River
--18 unidentified Marine Raiders at Cape Torokina on Bougainville, group shot
--1 unidentified GI with rifle, Cape Gloucester
--Lt Eddie Heimberger and unidentified soldier (after the war, he changed his name to Eddie Albert
--Manila Myrtle
--Navy fighter pilot Wayne Morris
--Wayne Morris
Marine Corps Private Lee Marvin
--Bill Lundigan and 12 unidentified photographers, 1st Marine Division
--General Douglas Macarthur and three soldiers
--Lew Ayres in uniform
--Members of the 37th Division Band
--unidentified men on the carrier Enterprise, Neptune party for the Polliwogs
--Leif Erickson and Tyrone Power, Okinawa, April 1945
--Unidentified GIs at Baguio in the Philippines, marching next to a tank
--Admiral George Murray, giving Henry Fonda bronze star. Unidentified man behind him.
--Five GIs on Okinawa
--Underwater Demolition Team 17, Okinawa, group shot. One is Also DaRae (later Aldo Ray)
--Celebrating GIs on Okinawa, unidentified
--Tad Van Brunt
--Gary Cooper, Phyllis Brooks and Una Merkel
--Randolph Scott and five unidentified GIs, one black, Guadalcanal
--Harvey and Moe Weiss, the boxing twins, with Mary Elliott, Rosita Morena, and Frances Fay, Guadalcanal, Feb 1944
--George "Bob" Crosby
--Jack Benny and Navy Commander W.J. Wicks, South Pacific 1944
--41st Infantry Division, landing on Wake Island, 1 recognizable but unidentified, the rest not recognizable or identified
--Robert Montgomery, They Were Expendable
--Dorothy Lamour and an unidentified private, DeRidder Army Air Force base
--2 unidentified sleeping soldiers
--Marine Private 1st Class, Handsall W. Sprenger, painting nose art on a B-29
--Unidentified sailor aboard USS CApelin, reading The Stray Lamb by Thorne Smith, and Vargas pinups
--Private 1st class Walter Guber
-- Corporal Bernard Butnik and Sergeant Richard Goodbar
--Betty Grable
--Rita Hayworth
--Betty Hutton, Marshall Islands 1944
--Jinx Falkenburg playing ping pong in November 1044
--Marsha Tilton, CArole Landis, and unidentified woman receive supplies
--Gypsy Rose Lee and 6 GIs in drag for one of her shows
--Jane Russell and three sailors at San Diego Naval Training Station
--Linda Darnell and unidentified woman
--Margie Stewart
--Pat Clark in pinup pose
--3 soldiers from 2nd Ranger Battalion in Ruhrberg
--Walt Goldberg at microphone and two unidentified women
--Five unidentified GIs singing in front of microphone
--5 unidentified soldiers preparing for Operation Market Garden
--a GI with a dog and two unidentified children in the Netherlands
--group photo, ground patrols from US 1st and 3rd Armies, near Houffalize
--Unidentified soldier on radio
--GIs in dugout crossing Moselle River. Only a couple are recognizable, all are unidentified
--Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters
--Unidentified American and Russian soldier, shaking hands
--General Dwight S. Eisenhower and British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder
--Singer Frances Day
--Two West Indian male soldiers and four West Indian female military members, talking to the BBC
--Mickey Rooney entertaining several unidentified GIs
--Billy Wilder
--Unidentified American and British servicemen celebrate in London
--Marlene Dietrich on a piano, 5 unidentified GIs
--Marlene on piano with unidentified GIs (different outfit)
--Bob Hope and Jane Russell
--PFCs William G. Curtis and Donald R. Stratton, having Thanksgiving Dinner
--Bing Crosby entertaining several unidentified and unidentifiable GIs
--Two unidentified soldiers
--Glenn Miller and his band
--Glenn Miller and his band
--Unidentified soldiers waiting to eat
--Tommy Dorsey in back of radio microphone
--Glenn Miller
--Bing Crosby and Joe DeRita
--unidentified Japanese women training with farm implements
--One identifiable GI on the Hornet as Anti-aircraft guns fire
--Paul Tibbets waves from the Enola Gay
--unidentified GIs reading newspaper in tent
--Danny Kaye
--Andrews Sisters
--Danny Kaye, Leo Durocher and unidentified soldier
--Marine Corps transport pilot Tyrone Power and 3 unidentified GIs
--Johnny Carson in uniform
--Unidentified soldiers holding up "Japs Quit" signs
--General Douglas Macarthur, Admiral Chester Nimitz, Admiral William "Bulls" Halsey, and other unidentified dignities watching Japanese official sign surrender
--Douglas MacArthur signs surrender documents, watched by several unidentified officers
--Audie Murphy in front of cemetery crosses
--Four unidentified soldiers
--Bob Hope, Victor Mature, unidentified sailors and nurses in a hospital
--Shirtless Tyrone Power at typewriter
--Jimmy Stewart receiving Air Medal
--Victor Mature and unidentified woman
--PFC Harper returning home to hugs from mother, wife and small daughter

The Battle of the Java Sea, by David Thomas

The Battle of the Java Sea, by David Thomas
Great Battles of the Modern World
Stein and Day, 1968
203 pages of text, plus a preface, four appendices (plus a Bibliography and Sources which is titled Appendix D), several photos, and an index.
Library: 940.4514 T455

Description
This is the first full account of what Winston Churchill called "the forlorn battle," the attempt by a desperately small fleet of British, Australian and Dutch ships to stem the Japanese advance into Southeast Asia in the days immediately following Pearl Harbor.

The battle was forlorn because the Allies were outnumbered, outclassed and outfought. Against a navy that was revealing itself as one of the best in the world, they had only a handful of cruisers and destroyers. The great capital ships that were intended to defend Singapore, Prince of Wales and Repulse, were among the first victims, sunk by aircraft in the Gulf of Siam, sacrificed by commanders who still believed the battleship could survive an air attack.

Mr. Thomas has reconstructed an hour by hour record of those grim days, days during which the Allied ships battled against confusion, muddle, misinformation, and plan bad luck, and one by one went to the bottom. His lucid analysis of these events is an important contribution to the history of the Second World War.

Table of Contents
1. Background to Aggression
2. Preparation for Infamy
3. The Mounting Peril
4. Allied Plans for the East
5. Despatch of the Deterrent
6. The Gulf of Siam
7. ABDA Command in Java
8. Battle off Balikpapan
9. The Tightening Vice
10. The Strike in Badung Strait
11. Overture to Battle
12. Battle of the Java Sea: Enemy in Sight
13. The First Hour of Battle
14. Destroyer Attacks
15. Loss of the Dutchmen
16. The Final Defeat

Appendices
A The Ten Point Note
B Japanese Naval Forces in the South West Pacific
C Reports of the Battle of the Java Sea
D Bibliography and Sources
E Principle Characteristics of Ships Engaged in the Battle

Photos:
The Japanese War Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Tojo. 1943.
Rear Admiral Shoji Nishimura
Rear Admiral Raizo Tanaka
Rear Admiral K.W.F.M. Doorman, Commander of the Allied Striking Force
Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, Vice Admiral Conrad E.L. Helfrich, Rear Admiral William R. Purnell and Admiral Thomas C. Hart
Queen Helena of the Netherlands, Admiral Hart, Rear Admiral William A Glassford, Lieutenant-Commander H.P. Smith, Commander H.E. Eccles and Commander T.H. Binford
Rear Admiral Doorman and officers, Feb 26, 1942
Dutch destroyer Kortenaer
British destroyer Jupiter
US destroyer John D. Edwards
Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze
Allied flagship, Dutch cruiser De Ruyter
Dutch light cruiser Java
US heavy cruiser Houston
Australian light cruiser Perth
Britih heavy cruiser Exeter fighting off Japanese aircraft in the Banka Strait
Japanese light cruiser Jintsu
Japanese heavy cruiser Haguro
only known photo of cruiser Java in action in the Java Sea
USS Exeter sinking in the Java Sea
Captain H.M.L. Walker, commanding officer of the HMAS Perth

Maps - line drawings
Two-page map of South East Asia region
Singapore region
Battle of Balikpaan
Battle of the Java Sea track chart
Battle of the Java Sea final phase

Manifesto

When you visit your local library, you'll find several shelves devoted to WWII. They begin alphabetically (regardless of whether it's the Dewey Decimal System or the Library of Congress version.

The goal of this blog is to record my education in WWII, starting from the As, and ending at the Zs.