So Long For Now: A Sailor'S Letters From The Uss Franklin

Half Title -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Book Epigraph -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Second Half Title -- Prologue -- 1 The Telegram -- 2 The "Westerers"--3 "The Past Is a Foreign Country"--4 War -- 5 What's the Matter with Kids Today? -- 6 Hang Up Your Flags and Put On Your Pins -- 7 The World in Seven Decks under an Airfield -- 8 The Home Front -- 9 Farewell, Fibber McGee -- 10 Not a Holiday -- 11 Fair Weather and Foul -- 12 A Welcome Break -- 13 Palau -- 14 Metamorphosis -- 15 "Thirty Days Leave Coming in on the Port Side" -- 16 Three Strikes and Out -- 17 Three Cheers-and the End of Cheer -- 18 "Anybody Home?" -- 19 I Don't Think I'll Make It -- 20 "Would You Like to Have a Transfer?" -- 21 "So Long for Now" -- 22 Fire and Water -- 23 " There's Dead People in There!" -- 24 Holding On to Hope -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index

• | Author: Elden Duane Rogers
• | Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 16, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 432 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 0806156325
• | ISBN-13: 9780806156323