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The View From My Foxhole: A Marine Private's Firsthand World War II Combat Experience From Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima
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After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, millions of young American men were eager to join up and defend their country. William Swanson was among them.
The View From My Foxhole is his unvarnished, as-it-happened account of his experience with the Marine Corps in the deadliest jungle warfare of World War II's Pacific Theater, including Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Iwo Jima. Swanson had to combat the hunger, the heat, the carnage, and the inescapable fear.Fear that it would all end tomorrow—or that it would never end.
Swanson survived the world of World War II. He lived to return to California, to start a family, and to tell his story. And now he shares that story with the world.
The View From My Foxhole is his unvarnished, as-it-happened account of his experience with the Marine Corps in the deadliest jungle warfare of World War II's Pacific Theater, including Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Iwo Jima. Swanson had to combat the hunger, the heat, the carnage, and the inescapable fear.Fear that it would all end tomorrow—or that it would never end.
Swanson survived the world of World War II. He lived to return to California, to start a family, and to tell his story. And now he shares that story with the world.
- ISBN:
- 9781637584675
- Publication Date:
- 2022-11-08
- Publisher:
- Permuted Press, LLC
- Language:
- English
- Page Count:
- 164
- Size:
- 8.54" l x 5.64" w x 0.82" h
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- History and Geography
Category
- World War I and II
- United States
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