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Dispatches from the Pacific, the World War II reporting of Robert L. Sherrod, Ray E. Boomhower

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Dispatches from the Pacific, the World War II reporting of Robert L. Sherrod, Ray E. Boomhower

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eng

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Main title

Dispatches from the Pacific

Medium

electronic resource

Responsibility statement

Ray E. Boomhower

Sub title

the World War II reporting of Robert L. Sherrod

Summary

In the fall of 1943, armed with only his notebooks and pencils, Time and Life correspondent Robert L. Sherrod leapt from the safety of a landing craft and waded through neck-deep water and a hail of bullets to reach the shores of the Tarawa atoll with the US Marine Corps. Living shoulder to shoulder with the marines, Sherrod chronicled combat and the marines' day-to-day struggles as they leapfrogged across the Central Pacific, battling the Japanese on Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. While the marines courageously and doggedly confronted an enemy that at times seemed invincible, those left behind on the American home front desperately scanned Sherrod's columns for news of their loved ones. Now, for the first time, Ray E. Boomhower tells Sherrod's story in this intimate account of the Pacific front war efforts

Target audience

adult

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