TY - BOOK AU - Lynch,Chris TI - The liberators T2 - World War II SN - 9780545523042 (hardcover) PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic Press KW - United States KW - Marine Corps KW - Parachute Battalion, 2nd KW - Juvenile fiction KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Campaigns KW - Pacific Area KW - Best friends KW - Friendship KW - Armed Forces KW - Parachute troops KW - History KW - 1933-1945 KW - War fiction KW - lcgft KW - Bildungsromans N2 - When Nick Nardini enlists in the Marine Corps' new paratrooper combat unit at the start of World War II, he has to talk his best friend, Zachary Klecko, into joining him in what he sees as an adventure--but from boot camp on it is clear that Zach is much more serious about the war than Nick is, at least until they are assigned to one of the POW recovery teams on the Japanese mainland ER -