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100 1 Stratton, Donald,|d1922-2020|eauthor.
245 10 All the gallant men :|ban American sailor's firsthand
account of Pearl Harbor /|cDonald Stratton with Ken Gire.
250 First edition.
264 1 New York, NY :|bWilliam Morrow,|c[2016]
300 viii, 306 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates :
|billustrations, maps ;|c20 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-287) and
index.
505 0 Prologue: The awakening -- A child of the Depression -- To
sea on the Arizona -- The last night -- December 7th --
The damage -- Among angels -- America responds -- Recovery
-- Home to Red Cloud -- Back in the fight -- Endgame --
The lessons of Pearl Harbor -- Remembering the Arizona --
Preparing for the seventy-fifth anniversary -- Epilogue:
The reunion.
520 A memoir by a USS Arizona survivor describes his
experience of the attacks that left him with burns over
more than sixty-five percent of his body, his resolve to
reenter service after a grueling recovery, and his
contributions to some of the Pacific's most violent
battles.
520 The most gripping, intimate, and inspiring account of
Pearl Harbor, the first memoir ever published by a USS
Arizona survivor. At 8:06 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman
First Class Donald Stratton was consumed by an inferno. A
million pounds of explosives had detonated beneath his
battle station aboard the USS Arizona, barely fifteen
minutes into Japan's surprise attack on American forces at
Pearl Harbor. Near death and burned across two thirds of
his body, Don, a 19-year-old Nebraskan who had been
steeled by the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, summoned
the will to haul himself hand over hand across a rope
tethered to a neighboring vessel. Forty-five feet below,
the harbor's flaming, oil-slick water boiled with enemy
bullets; all around him the world tore itself apart. In
this extraordinary, never-before-told eyewitness account
of the Pearl Harbor attack--the only memoir ever written
by a survivor of the USS Arizona--94-year-old Donald
Stratton finally shares his unforgettable personal tale of
bravery and survival on December 7, 1941, his harrowing
recovery, and his inspiring determination to return to the
fight. Don and four other sailors made it safely across
the same line that morning, a small miracle on a day that
claimed the lives of 1,177 of their Arizona shipmates--
approximately half the American fatalities at Pearl
Harbor. Sent to military hospitals for a year, Don refused
doctors' advice to amputate his limbs and battled to
relearn how to walk. The U.S. Navy gave him a medical
discharge, believing he would never again be fit for
service, but Don had unfinished business. In June 1944, he
sailed back into the teeth of the Pacific War on a
destroyer, destined for combat in the crucial battles of
Leyte Gulf, Luzon, and Okinawa, thus earning the
distinction of having been present for the opening shots
and the final major battle of America's Second World War.
As the 75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks
approaches, Don, a great-grandfather of five and one of
six living survivors of the Arizona, offers an
unprecedentedly intimate reflection on the tragedy that
drew America into the greatest armed conflict in history.
This is a book for the ages, one of the most remarkable---
and remarkably inspiring--memoirs of any kind to appear in
recent years.--From dust jacket.
600 10 Stratton, Donald,|d1922-
610 10 United States.|bNavy|vBiography.
610 20 Arizona (Battleship)
650 0 Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941|vPersonal
narratives.
650 0 Sailors|zUnited States|vBiography.
650 0 World War, 1939-1945|vPersonal narratives, American.
650 0 World War, 1939-1945|xCampaigns|zPacific Area.
650 7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military.|2bisacsh
650 7 HISTORY / Military / Naval.|2bisacsh
650 7 HISTORY / Military / World War II.|2bisacsh
655 7 Personal narratives.|2lcgft
700 1 Gire, Ken,|eauthor.
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