| A Flash of Green: Memories of WWII Contributor(s): McCandless, Charles S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555718108 ISBN-13: 9781555718107 Publisher: Hellgate Press OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2015 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Military - History | Military - World War Ii |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2015005471 |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6" W x 9" (0.70 lbs) 230 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's |
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Contributor Bio(s): McCandless, Charles S.: - Charles S. McCandless graduated from Stanford and soon after joined the the Navy. He was stationed at Pearl Harbor, when on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941 he was rendered unconscious as a bomb exploded only a few feet away from him and his shipmate. He never saw his friend again. Soon, he was back on duty, piloting a dive bomber during the battle of Midway, which he crashed at Guadalcanal. No longer able to fly, he served as a Seabee on several islands in the Pacific, was a frogman at Iwo Jima, and struggled to get our of the Philippines after the Japanese surrendered in 1945. After the war he became a major developer of R&D office buildings in California's Silicon Valley. |
