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- catalog abstract "James W. Johnston was a self-confessed small-town youth, who like so many others patriotically stopped what he was doing and enlisted shortly after Pearl Harbor. Johnston chose the Marines, a decision that sent him to years of bloody combat through the Pacific, as Allied troops fought their way toward the Japanese home islands. Johnston was a line company machine gunner, one of those who do the dirty work of war, who fight "in the face of the enemy." Many did not come back; of those who did, very few have told us what it was like. Johnston tells us directly and honestly, taking us with his First Marine Division through New Guinea, New Britain, Peleliu, and Okinawa. Johnston is still angry. At the stupidities of some military regulations, at the incompetence of some officers, at the people who weren't there but are sure they know all about it, at the rear-echelon troops who had plenty of everything yet bellyached about their tough times, at medals and promotions awarded for luck, showboating, and favoritism, while nearby brave and good men struggled and bled and died, unnoticed and unheralded.".
- catalog contributor b10699047.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "James W. Johnston was a self-confessed small-town youth, who like so many others patriotically stopped what he was doing and enlisted shortly after Pearl Harbor. Johnston chose the Marines, a decision that sent him to years of bloody combat through the Pacific, as Allied troops fought their way toward the Japanese home islands.".
- catalog description "Johnston is still angry. At the stupidities of some military regulations, at the incompetence of some officers, at the people who weren't there but are sure they know all about it, at the rear-echelon troops who had plenty of everything yet bellyached about their tough times, at medals and promotions awarded for luck, showboating, and favoritism, while nearby brave and good men struggled and bled and died, unnoticed and unheralded.".
- catalog description "Johnston was a line company machine gunner, one of those who do the dirty work of war, who fight "in the face of the enemy." Many did not come back; of those who did, very few have told us what it was like. Johnston tells us directly and honestly, taking us with his First Marine Division through New Guinea, New Britain, Peleliu, and Okinawa.".
- catalog extent "xx, 174 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Long road of war.".
- catalog identifier "0803225857 (cl : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Long road of war.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,".
- catalog relation "Long road of war.".
- catalog spatial "Pacific Area.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "940.54/26 21".
- catalog subject "D767.9 .J65 1998".
- catalog subject "Johnston, James W., 1922-".
- catalog subject "Soldiers United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "United States. Marine Corps Biography.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Area.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, American.".
- catalog title "The long road of war : a marine's story of Pacific combat / James W. Johnston.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Personal narratives American. fast".
- catalog type "text".