Unsung Hero; Forgotten War Book by G F Schreader
Unsung Hero; Forgotten War

Unsung Hero; Forgotten War


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Attu Island, the Aleutians, May 11, 1943, on the tail winds of a violent williwaw, the U.S. army and naval invasion force consisting of 15,000 American boys began the amphibious assault of Attu to drive out the Japanese garrison of a mere 2,500 still holding the island. Attu, at the western tip of the Aleutian island chain, was halfway to Japan. President Roosevelt wanted them out at any cost. This was to be the pivotal battle of the campaign to finally drive the Japanese monster off America's soil and prevent a possible future invasion of North America through Alaska. To the war planners of Western Defense Command, the odds were overwhelmingly favorable. Many of the boys were not even equipped with winter gear. The assault would be a quick thirty-six hour operation. It turned into a frozen, hellish nightmare that lasted twenty days. The Battle of Attu ranks second only to Iwo Jima in terms of the ratio of casualties to the number of combatants engaged for a single battle campaign operation. In the annals of WWII history, it was to become known as America's Forgotten War. The author's father was one of those boys who rode the assault wave that landed at Massacre Bay and marched up the hogback to engage the Japanese in one of the bloodiest and costliest battles of WWII. He would become a casualty, but one who would survive. This book is his story, as told to his son, the author. It is the story of an army soldier's journey from a depression era coal region town in eastern Pennsylvania to the Aleutian Islands half a world away and back again. It is not only his story, but about the many unsung heroes of the Aleutian Campaign who sacrificed so much to preserve America's freedom during the dark days of WWII.
About the Author: G. F. Schreader is a retired safety professional, having spent his career as a railroad and rail transit Operational System Safety Officer for a regional public transportation agency. His interests include classic muscle cars and sports, and he is very active in senior softball, golf, and physical fitness. He is a decorated U.S. Air Force veteran, having served as an enlisted crew member on reconnaissance aircraft during the final air campaigns against North Vietnam in the last two years of the war. This is his first military history publication. He lives privately with his family in eastern Pennsylvania.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781478723509
  • Publisher: Outskirts Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Outskirts Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 252
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: My Father's Remembrance of WWII and the Battle of Attu
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1478723505
  • Publisher Date: 07 Nov 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 390 gr


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