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Author : Stephen Manning
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Texas
ISBN : 9781556229428
Texans share their memories of what it was like to be alive during World War II.
Author : Christopher B. Bean
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 2022-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1623499704
Texans in World War II offers an informative look at the challenges and changes faced by Texans on the home front during the Second World War. This collection of essays by leading scholars of Texas history covers topics from the African American and Tejano experience to organized labor, from the expanding opportunities for women to the importance of oil and agriculture. Texans in World War II makes local the frequently studied social history of wartime, bringing it home to Texas. An eye-opening read for Texans eager to learn more about this defining era in their state’s history, this book will also prove deeply informative for scholars, students, and general readers seeking detailed, definitive information about World War II and its implications for daily life, economic growth, and social and political change in the Lone Star State.
Author : Ralph A. Wooster
Publisher : Eakin Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 31,32 MB
Release : 2015-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681790039
Several years ago, while writing the entry for Texas in World War II for the "New Handbook of Texas," Ralph Wooster was struck by the fact that no overall study of Texas and Texans in the second world war had been written. While a number of articles and monographs have been published concerning individual Texans and groups of Texans (such as the 36th Division and the "Lost Battalion"), he could find no published work that covered the activities of all Texans both at home and abroad during the war. Since his military service 50 years ago, Wooster has continued to be interested in the second world war. While his primary historical specialization is the American Civil War, he has taught a course on World War II for nearly 40 years. Writing the essay for Texas in World War II for the "New Handbook of Texas" convinced him to do a book on the subject. The book is dedicated to the American men and women who fought in the war. They are truly the great generation to whom we owe a debt that can never be repaid.
Author : Ralph A. Wooster
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,66 MB
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9781571688903
Within a few hours of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Americans began mobilizing for war. And in Texas, Governor Coke Stevenson denounced the ?cowardly Japanese attack? and issued a plea for a united country, calling upon all Texans to rally behind state and national leaders. Support for a united front was widespread. Thousands of Texans rushed to recruiting stations to offer their services in the great struggle. Stevenson had predicted that Texans would respond enthusiastically to defend their country. Young Texans proved him correct. By the end of January 1942, 148,004 Texans were in the armed forces, nearly two-thirds of them volunteers. This is their story.
Author : Stephen Manning
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 25,48 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
The book contains stories from 19 veterans across Texas and is thoroughly engaging. It's an extremely quick read. The stories are tragic and at times humorous. It's told in an interview-style, so you feel the emotions that the veterans are experiencing as they relive their personal accounts. One of my favorite chapters is of the Gibesons, a couple from San Antonio, who met during the War and are still married today. What a love story!
Author : Stephen M. Sloan
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 32,51 MB
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1623493072
For more than forty years the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University has dutifully gathered the flesh-and-blood memories of the World War II generation in the state of Texas. Tattooed on My Soul brings together seventeen of the most compelling narratives from Baylor’s extensive collection of more than five thousand interviews. Taken together, these selections provide an authentic and powerful mosaic of those critical years and offer intimate glimpses into the reality and meaning of the war for those who fought it. For them, World War II is more than history. And when they tell their stories, it becomes more than facts and dates, victories and defeats for those who listen. Representing a cross-section of Texas’ population and a wide range of wartime assignments, these recollections reveal the personal perspectives on many events and figures of World War II. On land, in air, and by sea, in the Pacific and in Europe, they fought for America’s future. With the clear ring of authenticity and a surprising immediacy, even after all these years, their stories make a global war personal.
Author : Joyce Gibson Roach
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781571680235
A collection of non-fiction and fiction stories which reflect the effects World War II had on the smaller rural places in Texas.
Author : Alexander Mendoza
Publisher : Centennial Series of the Assoc
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603445832
Although historians have studied the role of the state and its people in war for well over a century, a wealth of topics remain that deserve greater attention: Tejanos in World War II, the common Texas soldier's interaction with foreign enemies, the perception of Texas warriors throughout the world, the role of religion among Texans who fight or contemplate fighting, controversial paramilitary groups in Texas, the role and effects of Texans' ethnicity, culture, and gender during wartime, to name a few. In Texans at War, fourteen scholars provide new studies, perspectives, and historiographies to extend the understanding of this important field.
Author : Vince Leibowitz
Publisher :
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 2019-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781073433575
How did Texans learn that the Allied invasion of Europe had begun during World War II? A Solemn Hour for Texans Everywhere tells the story of how news of the D-Day invasion reached various Texas communities early in the morning hours of June 6, 1944, and how Texans from the governor to defense workers reacted to the news. Journalist and historian Vince Leibowitz spent months scouring primary sources, particularly newspapers, to tell the compelling story of how everyday Texans learned of the most important military engagement of World War II. He has unearthed scores of accounts of how cities and towns from Aspermont to Whitewright learned of the news and how they reacted. This compelling narrative tells how prearranged public signals and worship services had been planned throughout the state for the day of the invasion, and includes rare photographs of what actually occurred in some Texas cities and towns on D-Day. A Solemn Hour for Texans Everywhere takes the reader back in time to the days before the 24-hour news cycle to one of the most important days in modern American history and explores a completely forgotten aspect of World War II activities on the homefront in Texas. From funny moments like a man running in to the press room of a newspaper and handing over a wad of cash for the first edition off the presses, to stories of audible sobs through the stillness of early-morning church services, to documenting the only two known integrated D-Day observances in Texas, A Solemn Hour for Texans Everywhere paints the reader an accurate and emotional picture of what it was like to be awakened by news of the Allied invasion of France on the morning of June 6, 1944. A Solemn Hour for Texans Everywhere is designed with large print for an easy read for readers of all ages.
Author : Bill O'Neal
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 20,74 MB
Release : 2010-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781531656447
Texas made a remarkable contribution to the American war effort during World War II . Almost 830,000 Texans, including 12,000 women, donned uniforms, and more than 23,000 Texas fighting men died for their country. America's most decorated soldier, Lt. Audie Murphy, and most decorated sailor, submarine commander Sam Dealey, both were Texans. Texas A&M, an all-male military college, placed 20,000 men in the armed forces, of which 14,000 were officers--more than any other school in the nation, including the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the supreme commander of Allied Forces in Europe, was born in Denison in northeast Texas. Adm. Chester Nimitz, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, was born and raised in Texas. Almost 1.5 million soldiers, sailors, and fliers trained at scores of Texas bases. Texas oil fueled the Allied war effort, while Texas shipyards and defense plants provided a flood of war machines and munitions during the war effort.