Here are a dozen more dramatic stories from Wisconsin’s World War II veterans. Kristin Gilpatrick’s first book, The Hero Next Door, was our best seller of 2000. In this sequel, she offers more stories told by the veterans themselves.
The Hero Next Door Returns chronicles the experiences of several women veterans as well as others from the Pacific and European theaters of the 20th Century's most devastating war.
Kristin Gilpatrick is a former newspaper reporter who lives in Monona, Wisconsin.
Veterans you'll meet include:
• An Army signalman who scaled poles and dodged bullets to lay the thin line that held Allied communications together across Africa and Italy.
• A woman pilot who tested bombers and military tradition.
• An Army nurse who endured the sandy desert heat to mend wounded soldiers coming through the 81st Station Hospital in Africa.
• A submariner who swam enemy-held waters with seven surviving crewmates before being rescued by Philippine guerilla fighters.
• An Army artilleryman who “dodged” the draft by enlisting in the Army in 1939 and was taken prisoner by the Japanese in May of 1942 — and survived 40 months as a prisoner of war.
Publication date: May 2001
Fiction
Softcover
ISBN 1-878569-76-7
$14.95
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