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No Ordinary Joes
The Extraordinary True Story of Four Submariners in War and Love and Life
New York : Crown Publishers, [2010]
Format: Ebook
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Edition: First edition.
Description: 1 online resource (403 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
Documents the stories of four World War II prisoners of war who were tortured by their Japanese captors, describing the events that led to their imprisonment, the brutal conditions that forged their deep bond, and their considerable struggles to re-acclimate to civilian life.
Contents:
Surviving the Depression -- Submariners -- Assignment: Grenadier -- Captured -- The convent on Light Street -- From bad to worse -- Saved by the bombs -- Going home -- Sixty years later -- Epilogue.
Subjects:
Palmer, Bob, 1919-2000.
Cox, Gordy.
McCoy, Tim, 1924-
Vervalin, Chuck.
Grenadier (Submarine)
Submariners -- United States -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations -- Submarine.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography.
Prisoners of war -- Japan -- Biography.
Palmer, Bob, 1919-2000.
Cox, Gordy.
McCoy, Tim, 1924-
Vervalin, Chuck.
Grenadier (Submarine)
Submariners -- United States -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations -- Submarine.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography.
Prisoners of war -- Japan -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780307717245
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Ebook
Electronic resource.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.