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Combat Chaplain: The Personal Story of the WWII Chaplain of the Japanese American 100th Battalion (A Latitude 20 Book)
Israel A. S. Yost
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Description for Combat Chaplain: The Personal Story of the WWII Chaplain of the Japanese American 100th Battalion (A Latitude 20 Book)
Paperback. In June 1944, twenty-seven-year-old combat infantry chaplain Israel Yost arrived in Italy with the 100th Battalion, a little-known National Guard unit of mostly Japanese Americans from Hawai'i. This book presents this memoir intact with the addition of photographs and subsequent letters and speeches by Yost and other veterans. Editor(s): Yost, Monica E.; Markrich, Micheal. Series: A Latitude 20 Book. Num Pages: 320 pages, 40 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJH; BTM; HBJD; HBWQ; HRLP5; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 544.
In June 1944, twenty-seven-year-old combat infantry chaplain Israel Yost arrived in Italy with the 100th Battalion, a little-known National Guard unit of mostly Japanese Americans from Hawai'i. Yost was apprehensive when he learned of his assignment to this unusual unit composed of soldiers with whom he felt he had little in common and who were mostly Buddhists. But this would soon change. For the next nine months at the front - from Salerno to Monte Cassino to Anzio to Bruyeres - Yost assisted medics, retrieved bodies from the battlefield, buried enemy soldiers, struggled to bolster morale as the number of ... Read more
In June 1944, twenty-seven-year-old combat infantry chaplain Israel Yost arrived in Italy with the 100th Battalion, a little-known National Guard unit of mostly Japanese Americans from Hawai'i. Yost was apprehensive when he learned of his assignment to this unusual unit composed of soldiers with whom he felt he had little in common and who were mostly Buddhists. But this would soon change. For the next nine months at the front - from Salerno to Monte Cassino to Anzio to Bruyeres - Yost assisted medics, retrieved bodies from the battlefield, buried enemy soldiers, struggled to bolster morale as the number of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Series
A Latitude 20 Book
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824830823
SKU
V9780824830823
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