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World War II in Their Own Words: An Oral History of Pennsylvania's Veterans. By Brian Lockman, with additional text by Dan Cupper. (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2005. xvii, 253p. Illustrations, maps, timeline, bibliography, resources, index. $19.95.)
      This volume brings together 33 of the more than 150 interviews with Pennsylvania veterans of World War II conducted by the Pennsylvania Cable Network for broadcast on its popular World War II series. Organized by narrator, the interviews all follow the same general trajectory: enlistment, training, combat, and mustering out. A short introductory paragraph summarizes each narrator's service and a concluding paragraph his postwar life. Veterans of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marines—but not the Coast Guard—are included in the collection, though the Army Air Force is overrepresented. All but one of the narrators are men; none apparently are minorities. Several sidebars, on such topics as the Battle of the Bulge, life of a paratrooper, and the B-17 bomber, provide helpful background. . . .
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