The Anchor and the Journalist - Softcover

Livingston, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1663222657 ISBN 13: 9781663222657

Verlag: iUniverse, 2021

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On May 3, 1945 a swarm of Japanese suicide planes attacked an American ship, the USS Aaron Ward during the fierce struggle for Okinawa. The ship was all but destroyed and forty-two sailors died in the 52-minute battle. One of those killed was Laverne Schroeder, only two months before his eighteenth birthday. After the war an anchor from the ship was placed in the military section of the Bluff City Cemetery in Illinois. There the anchor remains, a silent reminder of kamikaze pilots who wanted to die and young sailors who wanted to live. This is the story of the Aaron Ward?s gallant fight, a brave young man, and a reporter?s quest to honor the ship?s legacy.

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Robert Livingston was a high school teacher in Los Angeles for thirty-seven years. He taught US History and Government, Economics, and Comparative Religions. In retiremen,t he joined a local Kiwanis Club and supervised three Key Clubs. He has written three books, each of which explored America's racial history by confronting little-known and all but forgotten slices of our national life. He had also written extensively on the causes of World War I and the reasons behind the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.

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• Verlag: iUniverse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1663222657
• ISBN 13: 9781663222657
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 218
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