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020			_a0062645358 _q(hardcover)
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092			_aStratton D. _bS911
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aStratton, Donald, _d1922- _eauthor. _9321727
245	1	0	_aAll the gallant men : _ban American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor / _cDonald Stratton with Ken Gire.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bWilliam Morrow, _c[2016]
264		4	_c©2016
300			_aviii, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps, portraits ; _c20 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 273-287) and index.
505	0		_aPrologue: The awakening -- A child of the Depression -- To sea on the Arizona -- The last night -- December 7th -- The damage -- Among angels -- America responds -- Recovery -- Home to Red Cloud -- Back in the fight -- Endgame -- The lessons of Pearl Harbor -- Remembering the Arizona -- Preparing for the seventy-fifth anniversary -- Epilogue: The reunion.
520			_aA memoir by a USS Arizona survivor describes his experience of the attacks that left him with burns over more than sixty-five percent of his body, his resolve to reenter service after a grueling recovery, and his contributions to some of the Pacific's most violent battles.
520			_aThe most gripping, intimate, and inspiring account of Pearl Harbor, the first memoir ever published by a USS Arizona survivor. At 8:06 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Class Donald Stratton was consumed by an inferno. A million pounds of explosives had detonated beneath his battle station aboard the USS Arizona, barely fifteen minutes into Japan's surprise attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor. Near death and burned across two thirds of his body, Don, a 19-year-old Nebraskan who had been steeled by the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, summoned the will to haul himself hand over hand across a rope tethered to a neighboring vessel. Forty-five feet below, the harbor's flaming, oil-slick water boiled with enemy bullets; all around him the world tore itself apart. In this extraordinary, never-before-told eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack--the only memoir ever written by a survivor of the USS Arizona--94-year-old Donald Stratton finally shares his unforgettable personal tale of bravery and survival on December 7, 1941, his harrowing recovery, and his inspiring determination to return to the fight. Don and four other sailors made it safely across the same line that morning, a small miracle on a day that claimed the lives of 1,177 of their Arizona shipmates--approximately half the American fatalities at Pearl Harbor. Sent to military hospitals for a year, Don refused doctors' advice to amputate his limbs and battled to relearn how to walk. The U.S. Navy gave him a medical discharge, believing he would never again be fit for service, but Don had unfinished business. In June 1944, he sailed back into the teeth of the Pacific War on a destroyer, destined for combat in the crucial battles of Leyte Gulf, Luzon, and Okinawa, thus earning the distinction of having been present for the opening shots and the final major battle of America's Second World War. As the 75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks approaches, Don, a great-grandfather of five and one of six living survivors of the Arizona, offers an unprecedentedly intimate reflection on the tragedy that drew America into the greatest armed conflict in history. This is a book for the ages, one of the most remarkable---and remarkably inspiring--memoirs of any kind to appear in recent years.--From dust jacket.
600	1	0	_aStratton, Donald, _d1922- _9321727
610	2	0	_aArizona (Battleship) _9321728
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bNavy _vBiography. _956736
650		0	_aPearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 _vPersonal narratives. _9321729
650		0	_aSailors _zUnited States _vBiography. _956737
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _vPersonal narratives, American. _955960
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xCampaigns _zPacific Area. _931198
655		7	_aPersonal narratives. _2lcgft _9268853
700	1		_aGire, Ken, _eauthor. _9226145
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