Gi Joe Doesn't Live Here Anymore: An Oral History of Clark Air Base, America's Mightly Air Force Bastion in the Philippines - Softcover

Utts, Thomas C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1413778356 ISBN 13: 9781413778359

Publisher: Publishamerica Inc, 2006

Synopsis

Early in the 20th century, the hoofbeats of U.S. Cavalry horses were a familiar sound at America’s new base in the Philippines. At the beginning of WWII, Japanese bombs destroyed American planes on the runway. After the war, the base played a vital role, providing men and equipment to wars in Korea and Vietnam...until the 1991 monster eruption of Mt. Pinatubo sent American airmen away, never to return. This gritty, poignant, humorous, and sometimes disturbing chronicle reconstructs the 90-year history of what was the largest, and one of the most colorful, overseas United States military bases. That story is told in previously unpublished letters, writings, and personal accounts by the men, women, and families who were stationed there.

Edition details

• Publisher: Publishamerica Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1413778356
• ISBN 13: 9781413778359
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 356