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RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 769.85 .N33 R64 2005 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
17972 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 0865344728 (softbound)
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 769.85 .N33
- Item number - R64 2005
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Rogers, Everett M.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Silent voices of World War II :
- Remainder of title - when sons of the Land of Enchantment met sons of the Land of the Rising Sun /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Everett M. Rogers and Nancy R. Bartlit.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Santa Fe :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Sunstone Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2005.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 349 pages :
- Other physical details - illustrations, maps ;
- Dimensions - 23 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
- Bibliography, etc - Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-323) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Jumping into the fray -- The Bataan Death March -- Navajo code talkers -- The Japanese American relocation/internment camps -- Los Alamos -- Conclusions -- Further resources and points of interest -- Comparison of main events 1941-1945 -- World War II time-line
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "When World War II began, New Mexico had a population of 531, 815 inhabitants, one of the least populated of the 48 states, Yet, New Mexico and New Mexicans played a key role in the outcome of the War in the Pacific. The New Mexico National Guard was the first U.S. military unit to fight the Japanese, holding on for four months on Bataan, and then suffering through years in POW camps. The atomic bomb was developed at a secret laboratory in Los Alamos, and tested at a site near Alamogordo. Navajo code talkers helped capture bases from which B-29s bombed Japanese cities. Finally, several thousand Japanese Americans, classified by the FBI as dangerous enemy aliens, were interned in a camp near Santa Fe. These seemingly separate events were related through unique qualities of the arid, spacious land.
The authors have now provided a voice for the previously silent heroes of these wartime events: Special Engineer Detachment (SED) enlisted men and women at Los Alamos who actually fabricated the atomic bomb, Navajo Marine privates, National Guard enlisted men, and Japanese American internees. Their stories, obtained through personal interviews by Rogers and Bartlit to supplement the historical record, illuminate the patriotism, human suffering, and courageous humor in these important World War II events."
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Corporate Name |
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
- General subdivision - History.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- Geographic subdivision - New Mexico.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Participation, Indian.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Navajo Indians
- Geographic subdivision - New Mexico
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - 20th century.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Atomic bomb
- Geographic subdivision - New Mexico
- General subdivision - History.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Japanese Americans
- General subdivision - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Japanese Americans
- Geographic subdivision - New Mexico
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - 20th century.
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - Bombardment, 1945.
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Bartlit, Nancy R.,
- Dates associated with a name - 1936-
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