[PDF] Montana During World War 2 eBook

Author : Lt. Col. George A. Larson, USAF (Ret.)
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 26,35 MB
Release : 2020-03-12
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ISBN : 1678010448

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Merriam Press World War 2 History. During World War II the state of Montana gave over 1,000 men to the final sacrifice to defend the United States. Thousands of military personnel trained in the state, before moving onto combat, especially those of four B-17 bomb groups. The state was temporary home to alien detainees and German Prisoners of War. Now, over 75 years from these events, this book is dedicated to these Americans who helped win the two-ocean war the United States fought, 1941-1945. This is truly a look back in time to America�s greatest generation. 304 photos, maps, illustrations.

Author : Dennis E. McClendon
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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This book is about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. It is written to recognize all of the Montanans who played a part, no matter how small, in winning the war. Not all of the story is pretty, but it is a story that needed to be told.

Author : Matthew L. Basso
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0226038866

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“I realize that I am a soldier of production whose duties are as important in this war as those of the man behind the gun.” So began the pledge that many home front men took at the outset of World War II when they went to work in the factories, fields, and mines while their compatriots fought in the battlefields of Europe and on the bloody beaches of the Pacific. The male experience of working and living in wartime America is rarely examined, but the story of men like these provides a crucial counter-narrative to the national story of Rosie the Riveter and GI Joe that dominates scholarly and popular discussions of World War II. In Meet Joe Copper, Matthew L. Basso describes the formation of a powerful, white, working-class masculine ideology in the decades prior to the war, and shows how it thrived—on the job, in the community, and through union politics. Basso recalls for us the practices and beliefs of the first- and second-generation immigrant copper workers of Montana while advancing the historical conversation on gender, class, and the formation of a white ethnic racial identity. Meet Joe Copper provides a context for our ideas of postwar masculinity and whiteness and finally returns the men of the home front to our reckoning of the Greatest Generation and the New Deal era.

Author : Martin Kidston
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781560373230

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These former Montana soldiers share their sometimes humorous, frequently chilling, and always fascinating accounts as they traveled to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, the coast of Australia, and the islands of the Philippines.

Author : Gary Glynn
Publisher : Big Elk Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780983839026

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The history of Fort Missoula, established in Montana Territory in 1877. "That Beautiful Little Post on the Bitterroot" as one commander dubbed it, played a prominent role in the Nez Perce War of 1877. During the 1890s the Fort Missoula Bicycle Corps experimented with the military use of two-wheeled transportation, culminating in 1,900 mile journey to St. Louis over primitve roads. The Fort was used during World War II as a Detention Center for interned Italian and Japanese citizens, and eventually became a Disciplinary Barracks housing hundreds of U.S. Army soldiers who had run afoul of the law.

Author : Ken Robison
Publisher : Civil War
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626196032

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"Confederate veterans flocked to the Montana Territory at the end of the Civil War. Seeking new opportunities after enduring the hardships of war, these men and their families made a lasting impact on the region. Their presence was marked across the territory in places like Confederate Gulch and Virginia City. Now meet the fascinating characters who came to Big Sky country after the war, including guerrillas who fought with William Quantrill and Bloody Bill Anderson, as well as cavalrymen who rode with Confederate legends General Nathan Bedford Forrest and Colonel John S. Mosby. Author and historian Ken Robison recounts where these soldiers came from, why they fought for the South, what drew them to the Montana Territory and how they helped shape the region." -- book cover.