World War II Akron
Published on 18. March 2019
178 pages
978-1-4396-6640-1 (ISBN)
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When World War II engulfed the nation, the men and women of Akron dutifully played their part in the epic struggle. Keyes Beech ducked grenades as marines raised the American flag at on Iwo Jima. Newspaper magnate John S. Knight watched the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri just five months after his son was killed in Germany. On the homefront, Goodyear manufactured blimps used to hunt down Nazi submarines, and noted Beacon Journal cartoonist Web Brown pledged his talent and his pen to boosting morale at home and abroad. Replete with more than one hundred images, including many of Brown's wartime drawings, this thrilling account by local author Tim Carroll recalls all that Akron gave for freedom.
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World War II Akron
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03/2019
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Born and raised in Akron, Ohio, Tim Carroll attended Case Elementary, Litchfield Middle School and Firestone High School before obtaining a history degree from the University of Akron. Both of his grandfathers, John M. Carroll and John F. Ward, were drafted before Pearl Harbor and served overseas in the Pacific for close to three years.
Content
- Front Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1. The Road to War
- 2. Pearl Harbor
- 3. The Draft
- The Boy Scout Draft
- Old Man's Draft
- Drafting of Fathers
- Conscientious Objectors
- 4. The Home Front: Akron Mobilizes for War
- Akron Joins the Fight
- War Time
- Bob Hope, Jackie Coogan, Roy Rogers and the Memphis Belle
- The Rubber Bowl and Akron Airport
- Top Secret: Akron and General Patton Fool the Nazis on D-Day
- Casualties on the Home Front: The American Theater
- Goodyear Blimps Go to War
- Life Rafts
- Problems on the Home Front
- 5. War Stories
- General Jimmy Doolittle
- Shorty Fulton
- Dogs for Defense
- Clark Gable
- Wesley, Richard and Franklin Swenson
- Blanche Sigman
- Robot Bombs
- The Dirty Dozen
- Back from the Dead
- The Story of Jack Edward Link
- The Congressional Medal of Honor
- The Thirty-Seventh Division
- 6. Athletes during World War II
- 7. Journalists at War
- John S. Knight
- Web Brown
- Keyes Beech
- Louis Bromfield
- Helen Waterhouse
- Ernie Pyle and the Story of GI Joe
- 8. The Deadliest Year: June 1944-May 1945
- Akronites Lose Their Only Son
- Fifteen Families Lose Two Sons in the Last Year of the War
- 9. V-E, V-J Day and after World War II
- About the Author
