Title: Good Night Officially: The Pacific War Letters Of A Destroyer Sailor Mcbride, William
Publisher: Westview Press
Publication Date: 1996
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0813330637
ISBN 13: 9780813330631
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 3rd Edition
Condition: New

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This book is about letters from enlisted sailors to their wives on destroyers during World War 11. These letters tell the tragic story of citizen-solders at war. Destroyer sailors, like frontline Marine infantrymen, knew the horror, hopelessness, and hardship of fighting a suicidal enemy.

From Publishers Weekly

The destroyer USS Howorth , commissioned in 1944, took part in 11 shore bombardments, destroyed 12 Japanese warplanes, and won battle stars in the Philippines, Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns. Yeoman Second Class Orvill Raines's remarkably expressive letters to his wife convey in vivid detail what it was like to serve aboard a "tin can" in an increasingly dangerous war zone. He writes of the daily routine of ship and crew, his struggle against boredom and homesickness, his dreams of the postwar future, and periods of stark terror as Japanese kamikazes began to stalk the fleet. Raines, a former Dallas Morning News reporter, was 26 years old and passionately in love with his wife of four years, Ray Ellen. His expressions of devotion ("I kiss the lipstick you put on your letters . . . and feel your heavenly body next to mine") are universal and poignant in the context of a war he would not survive. McBride, professor of history at James Madison University in Virginia, has done an excellent job of editing, footnoting and putting the letters in historical context. Photos.
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