Winking at death: memoir of a World War II POW
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| Online-Zugang: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-256) and index |
| Beschreibung: | XXV, 304 S. Ill. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781434394293 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Dedication
..........................................xiii
Introduction
..........................................xv
Chapter I
Before Combat
Growing up in Indianapolis
................................1
Out of College—But Then What?
...........................3
An Embalmer in Prescott, Arizona
..........................6
Working on The Arizona Republic
.........................11
Beating the Draft
......................................12
Chapter
2
In the Army Air Corps
Pilot Training
.........................................15
Navigation: First a Student and Then a Teacher
...............19
On the Way to Combat
..................................26
Chapter
3
Combat
San Marcelino
.........................................29
My First Combat Mission
................................39
My Second Mission
.....................................44
My Third (and Last) Mission
..............................46
Chapter
4
Shot Down
Getting Shot Down in a B-25 on my Third Mission
............48
Ditching (Brush-with-Death No.
1)........................
52
Inching Along in a Rubber Raft
...........................
57
Tell All You Know
....................................
59
Chapter
5
Captured
3
April
1945..........................................
61
Interrogation (Brush-with-Death No.
2).....................
w
Chapter
6
Haiko
и
c. n
и
.....68
First Cells
........................................
70
The Mosquitoes
........................................
Cold Nights
..........................................
71
.72
Japanese Nurses
.......................................
.74
Gruel and Rice Balls
....................................
Killing Time Before It Kills You: Surviving POW Life
...........
78
Remembering and Focusing
............................
87
Solace through Faith (or Solitude)
.......................
Communicating
.....................................
. .94
Diaries, Drawings and Paintings
........................
..97
Reading
—
and Listening Secretly to a Radio
................
ρ
. ... .99
Routines
.......................................
100
A Steak Dinner
.......................................
Λ
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.
-I03
A Narrow Escape
....................................
More Beatings
........................................104
Roosevelt s Death
.....................................105
Forced March
........................................107
The Champion Wrestler (Brush-with-Death No.
3) ...........110
Almost Beheaded (Brush-with-Death No.
4).................112
Chapter
7
Stopover
Truck Ride
..........................................115
Drunken Japanese Officers (Brush-with-Death No.
5).........116
Cockroaches and Laughter
..............................117
Chuck Sueys Last Words
...............................125
Maneuvering the Guards
................................129
Chapter
8
Sany
a
Unexpected Joy
.......................................138
Our Last Cells
........................................146
Food
...............................................147
Relationships
........................................149
Guards and Games
....................................155
Stealing Suzuki s Fundoshi (Brush-with-Death No.
6)..........163
The Rat
.............................................164
Work, Exercise and Morale
..............................165
Disease and Dying
....................................173
Chapter
9
War s End
Excited Whispers
......................................
Sanya Hospital
.......................................181
The OSS and the SOS
..................................183
Bodies and Feelings Restored
.............................185
Departure from Hainan
................................190
Chapter
10
Recovery
—
And Then Back Home Again
Love of My Life
.......................................194
Back to School
.......................................196
Return to Hainan Island
................................198
Chapter 11
Who are the Heroes?
Heroism in Civilian Life
................................
™2
A Boy Scout
.......................................
202
AMother Saves Her Children
.........................
203
Two Firefighters Save a Family from a Burning House
.......205
A Western Movie Hero
...............................
205
Heroism in Combat
...................................
2
Audie Murphy
.....................................
206
The Samurai Code
..................................
2
Heroism in POW Life
..................................
212
POW Doctors and Nurses
............................
2l5
Stanley Pavillard
.................................
2l5
Other Unsung Doctors and Nurses
...................
POW Engineers
....................................224
POW Escapes
......................................225
Lance Sijan
.....................................227
The Great Escape
...............................233
Are POWs Heroes?
..................................236
Afterthoughts
........................................239
Bibliography
.........................................245
Endnotes
............................................259
Index
...............................................295
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