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(From the Synopsis) The letters passing back and forth between thees two "Bills" trace their day-by-day wartime adventures (and occasional misadventures)

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Timeline of United States military operations

Seconde Guerre mondiale

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	01 janvier 1997
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781681622750
Langue	English

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TURNER PUBLISHING COMPANY
Copyright 1997 Beverly J. Albright Publishing Rights: Turner Publishing Company.
This book or any part thereof may not be reproduced without the written consent of the author and publisher.
Turner Publishing Company Staff: Chief Editor: Robert J. Martin Designer: Shelley R. Brown
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 97-60749 ISBN: 978-1-56311-327-7
Limited Edition. Additional copies may be purchased directly from the publisher.
Cover photo: (1-r) Front: Earl J. Norris, Ford B. Rogers, Robert B. McGlasson, William H. Alderson. Back: Harry A. Ehlers, Carl E. Duncan, Louis S. Lazenby, Frank S. Tietz, George E. Sloan.
Table of Contents
About The Authors - Bill Alderson
- Bill Burling
Author s Acknowledgment
Synopsis of Manuscript
Publisher s Message
Prologue Letter Date Open Close 14 Mar 43 Dear Bill Box Car Bill 15 Mar Dear Bill Baggy Eyed Bill 21 Mar Dear Box Car Bill Snowbird Bill 24 Mar Dear Baggy Eyed Bill Much Better Now Bill 16 Mar Dear Bill Truly Sorry Bill 18 Mar Dear Bill Outhouse Bill 27 Mar Outhouse Bill The Lowest Midshipman 21 Mar Dear Bill Bacillus Bill 24 Mar Dear Bill AKA Albert E. Grand Prix Bill 30 Mar Dear Bacillus Grand Prix Weary Bill 27 Mar Dear Weary Will Tinker Bill 8 Apr Dear Tinker Bill Pooped Bill 17 Apr Dear Begonia Bill Anxious Bill 1 Apr Dear Pooped Begonia Bill 12 Apr Dear Beat Up Hog Wallow Bill 3 May Dear Hog Wallow Bill On The Move Bill 26 Apr Dear Movable Bridegroom Bill 29 May Dear Bridegroom Bill Paroled Bill 21 May Dear Parolee Titillated In Texas 29 Jun Dear Titillated Ignoramus Bill 24 Jun Dear Deck Officer Bull s Eye Bill 5 Aug Dear Bull s Eye Bill Rubbery Knees Bill 30 Jul Dear Rubber Kneed Beau Brummel Bill 28 Sep Dear Beau Brummel Bill Older Wiser Bill 18 Sep Dear Older Wiser Poppa Bear 21 Nov Dear Poppa Bear Over Drilled Bill 12 Dec Dear Wm. Getting Nervous Bill 8 Nov Dear Over Drilled The Snapshooter 12 Jan 44 Dear Snapshooter Busy Bill 2 Jan Dear Bill Philosopher Bill 20 Jan Dear Nervous Ripcord Bill 24 Jan Dear Ripcord Bill Aloha Bill 14 Feb Dear Bombardier Somewhat Sober Bill 17 Jan Dear Busy B. Brimstone Bill 1 Mar Dear Bomber Bill Really Sorry Now Bill 1 Mar Dear Aloha The Replacement 15 Mar Dear Bill Bronco Bill 28 Mar Dear Brimstone Bill Nervous Bill 22 Mar Dear Jolly Tar Bereaved Bill 7 Apr Dear Somewhat The Traumatized Toggler 14 Apr Dear Bombardier Bill Snakesbelly Bill 11 Apr Dear Really Sorry Cheers Wino Will 20 Apr Dear Nervous Mayday Bill 7 May Dear Bereaved Bill Extremely Sorry Now Bill 17 May Dear Pub Crawler Tired Of It All Bill 12 May Dear Bill Take Good Care - Magellan 23 May Dear Snakesbelly Bereaved Again In Britain ?? Jun Dear Traumatized Toggeleer Enough Of This Bill 29 May Dear Extremely, Etc. Sitting Bill 17 Jun Dear Bomber Bill Becalmed Bill 14 Jun Dear Bill Quick Draw Bill 23 Jun Dear Wino Bill Expendable Bill 24 Jun Dear Tired Of It All Believing Bill 2 Jul Dear Enough Of This Buzzard Bill 12 Jul Dear Tired Had Enough Biting The Bullet Bill 20 Jul Dear Guns Cliff Hanger Bill 26 Jul Dear Wherever You Are Bemedaled And Bemused Bill 5 Aug Dear Fore And Aft Barnacle Bill 17 Aug Dear Paradise Islander Pensive Proud Bill 1 Sep Dear Slocum Bill Of The Squared Circle 5 Sep Dear Permanently Pacific In Hog Heaven Bill 16 Aug Dear Bereaved Magellan Worn Out Bill 16 Sep Dear Worn Out Basking In Bounty Bill 30 Sep Dear Sitting Bill Disposable Bill 27 Sep Dear Disposable Bug-Eyed Bill 15 Oct Dear Surviving Rear Echelon Bill 7 Oct Dear Quick Draw Bill The Seagoing Guinea Pig 21 Oct Dear Guinea Pig Baron Bill 24 Nov Dear Bomber Man Shadow Bill 1 Jan 45 Dear Shadow Running In Place Bill 27 Dec Dear Believing Bill Filipino Bill 2 Feb Dear Filipino Kittyhawk 45 23 Jan Dear Buzzard Bill Homesick Bill 2 Mar Dear Homesick Ace Alderson 3 Feb Dear Homeward Bound Bill Student Of The Philippines 4 Apr Dear Filipino Student Regards, Kangaroo Bill 1 Mar Dear Wild Blue Bill Blue Bill 14 Mar Dear Chicago Resident Scared Silly Bill 30 Apr Dear Wild Blue Boy White Haired Bill 1 May Dear Scared Silly Blue Baron Bill 2 May Dear Homebody I Want To Go Home Bill 7 May Dear Bombardier Anxiety Bill 10 May Dear Cliffhanger Bill Anxious Bill 14 May Happy For You Bill 17 May Dear Barnacle, Etc., Bill Short Fingernail Bill 20 May Dear Hog Heaven Bill Gung-No Bill 23 May Dear Kittyhawk Bill End Of The Rope Bill 2 Jun Dear White Locks, Anxiety Loopy Bill 26 Jun Dear Ace, Kangaroo, Baron Urgent Civilian Bill 1 Jul Dear Anxious Straight And Level Bill 17 Jul Dear Loopy Bill Exterior Decorator Bill 24 Jul Dear Airborne Acrobat Barnacle Bill 2 Aug Dear Short Fingernails Former Flying Fool Bill 14 Aug Dear Straight And Level Survivor Bill 29 Aug Dear Former Flying Fool Banzai Bill 31 Aug Dear Gung-No Wondering William 21 Sep Dear Urgent Decorator Job Hunter Bill 9 Oct Dear Wondering William Reluctant Wanderer Bill 22 Oct Dear Barnacle Bill Burling The Housemaid s Knee 17 Nov Dear Job Hunter Bill Inching Along Home Bill 23 Nov Dear Domesticated Bill Wayfaring Stranger Bill 1 Dec Dear Banzai Bill Blowout Bill 21 Dec Dear Reluctant Wanderer Tote That Bale Bill 23 Dec Dear Returnee Bill Choked Up Bill 27 Dec Dear Housemaid s Knee Homeward Bound Bill 1 Jan 46 Dear Inchworm Scrivener Bill 7 Jan Dear Tote That Bale Bill Frisco Derelict Bill 12 Jan Dear Choked Up Wayfarer Welcome Wagon William 17 Jan Dear Welcome Wagon Bill Reluctant Seafarer Bill 12 Apr Dear Bill Soon A Civilian Bill 17 Apr Dear Soon Bacchus Bill
After Word - 10 April 1990 199
After Word - 20 June 1995 199
Epilogue
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
WILLIAM H. B ILL ALDERSON
Bill Alderson was born 9 February 1922 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Married 6 June 1942 to Shirley R. Russell.
Alderson attended Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, where he met William Bill Burling who became a fraternity brother, enduring friend, fellow hunter, fisherman and correspondent.
Alderson served as bombardier-navigator aboard B-24s during World War II and aboard B-26s during the Korean conflict.
Alderson has four children, six grandchildren and two great grandchildren and lives on the shore of Lake Michigan in New Buffalo, Michigan.
WILLIAM S. B ILL BURLING
Bill Burling was born in 1922 in Bloomington, Illinois, and was raised there attending public schools and Illinois Wesleyan University.
Burling entered the Navy shortly after Pearl Harbor and qualified for Officer s training.
At Illinois Wesleyan University, Burling met Bill Alderson, a fellow pheasant hunter and fraternity brother. Their friendship spanned the war years and many subsequent forays into field and forest.
Burling served as deck Officer aboard a Landing Ship Tank (LST) in the Pacific. His ship participated in a score of landings against Japanese forces dug in on atolls and islands. Burling returned home in May of 1946, after the decommissioning of his ship on the East Coast.
Bill Burling lives near Howe, Indiana, on a small lake. He is married to Dorothy, and they have four children and two granddaughters.
DEAR BILL:
The authors wish to thank the following for their valuable contributions to the completion of this book.
Brian Rzepczynski
Woodbridge, Illinois
Bill Alderson, Jr.
St. Simons Island, Georgia
Al Aplin
Bettendorf, Iowa
Beverly Albright
Decatur, Indiana
S YNOPSIS
The radio announcement of the attack on Pearl Harbor effectively subdued a group of carefree young men gathered for Sunday dinner at their fraternity house in Bloomington, Illinois. For them, it began a long hiatus from campus life and classroom studies. The learning process, however, continued on a much accelerated level with an entirely different curriculum in unusual and often very dangerous surroundings. The wartime lives and times of two of those naive midwesterners, Bill Alderson and Bill Burling, and their metamorphosis from students to combat veterans has, at long last, been assembled (over 50 years hence) to answer the proverbial family question, What did you do in the war, Daddy? .
The letters passing back and forth between these two Bills trace their day-by-day wartime adventures (and occasional misadventures). The fear and uncertainty. The loss of friends and comrades. The longing for stateside family and friends. The hope that the two would see the elephant and live to tell about it.
D EAR B ILL :
A true accounting of the experiences and thoughts of two young midwesterners and their metamorphosis from students to combat Officers during World War II.
In a series of letters, the Bills trace their leap from civilian life to Midshipman and Aviation Cadet and, finally, to deck Officer on a Landing Ship Tank (LST) in the Pacific and bombardier- navigator aboard a B-24 Liberator over Germany.
The letters, to a kindred spirit, bolstered their determination to return home with body, mind and psyche intact. The Bills find humor, cynicism and courage (or the lack of it) in their journey from naive volunteer to the sights and sounds of vicious combat on the sea and in the air.
Two average guys, now much older and a tad wiser, still proud to be Americans and numbered among our combat veterans.
Sunday
14 March 1943
DEAR BILL-
S.A.A.C.C.! To the uninitiated this stands for San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center, Texas. Currently I am on board a train headed for I know not what with a bunch of other guys who know not what. Judging by the appearance and countenance of my fellow travelers the V for Victory symbol is woefully premature. The Third Reich may go on an extra 1,000 years at a full gallop.
The Army, in it s infinite wisdom, has commandeered rolling stock that civilians (in their infinite wisdom) quit riding on at the turn of the century. The prevailing weather conditions locally are the prevailing weather conditions inside. The bleachers at Soldier Field are much more comfortable to the weary rump than the seats on board. Three hours out of the 8th Street Station in Chicago, cigarettes, cigars, arm p