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War, Wings, and a Western Youth, 1925-1945 details historian Ted C. Hinckley"s formative years as a Pasadena, California youth followed by wartime duty with Navy famed Torpedo Squadron Six. Despite California's Depression doldrums, Pasadena was for young Hinckley and his pals a tree-climbing, Arroyo Seco-exploring Elysium. Thanks to a neighborhood Matriarchal conspiracy and excellent public schools, his gang received a thorough indoctrination in the local YMCA's body, mind and spirit credo. Hinckley's father, the Major, voiced cosmopolitan opinions on the expanding realities of American Involvement in another possible world war. His reasoned views ran smack into wife Eunice Hinckley's fulminating Bible-belt isolationism. Well before their son and his friends went off to war, totalitarianism's spreading global threat had eclipsed the boys' absorption in corner lot football. Big-Little comic books, and Southern California's momentary celebrities. Like many of the men and women in uniform Ted Hinckley was relatively uninfluenced by wartime propaganda. Certainly he did not burn with hatred of the German and Japanese peoples. Indeed, for millions pf Americans lucky enough to survive history's most frightful disaster, the Second World War became the supreme adventure. For Hinckley, the adventure was combat flying and kamikaze devastation aboard the carrier USS Hancock. Confirming the author's rock solid belief in his nation's greatness were repeated acts of nobility by average Americans that he witnessed in the Pacific War. Readers will also share Hinckley's amusement at mankind's follies. Fortunately for the Republic, this fumbling, trembling airman played an utterly insignificant role. Unquestionably the Depression=Second World War year marked him profoundly.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Pentland Press, Raleigh, NC. 1996. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Fine. Black boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on spine. 165 pp 8vo. This book details historian Ted C. Hinckley's formative years as a Pasadena CA youth followed by wartime duty with the Navy's famed Torpedo Squadron Six. The author tells how prewar America- family, community, nation- so shaped the outlook and attitudes of one young boy that it inevitably resulted in his call to the colors sustaining him in the grueling action-filled struggles against the kamikaze of Okinawa and Japan. A clean pristine copy. Seller Inventory # 004312
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has two small edge tears to the top front panel. "Ted C. Hinckley was born in New York City in 1925 and received his public school education in Pasadena, CA. He fought with the United States Navy's Torpedo Squadron 6 during World War II. Hinckley received his BA from Claremont McKenna College, graduating in its first four-year class in 1950. While there he married Scripps student Caryl Chesmore to whom he remained happily devoted for over fifty years. Hinckley later received a BS from Northwest Missouri State University and then an MA from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Hinckley was awarded a PhD in History from Indiana University in 1961. Hinckley taught History at San Jose State University for thirty-one years. During and after his tenure at the university, Hinckley traveled the globe with teaching assignments in Europe, Latin America, Alaska, Micronesia, and as a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Gadja Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Hinckley and his wife happily retired to Lake Whatcom near Bellingham, WA. During his retirement, he spent many years as a shipboard history teacher with United States Navy's PACE program. Among Hinckley's publications are diverse anthologies and three scholarly volumes on America's nineteenth century Alaskan frontier. He also wrote many scripts and screenplays, as well as a children's book." (archives West). Seller Inventory # A39044
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