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The Resource The Jersey brothers : a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home, Sally Mott Freeman

The Jersey brothers : a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home, Sally Mott Freeman

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  • Documents the extraordinary story of three brothers in World War II, describing the rescue mission launched by the elder two when their youngest brother was declared missing in action in the Philippines
  • "They are three brothers, all navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of World War II's most crucial moments. Bill is tapped by Franklin D. Roosevelt to run the first Map Room in Washington. Benny is the gunnery and antiaircraft officer on the USS Enterprise, one of the only ships to escape Pearl Harbor and, by the end of 1942, the last aircraft carrier left in the Pacific to defend against the Japanese. Barton, the youngest, gets a plum commission in the Navy Supply Corps because his mother wants him out of harm's way. But this protection plan backfires when Barton is sent to the Philippines and listed as missing-in-action after a Japanese attack. Now it is up to Bill and Benny to rescue him. Based on ten years of research drawn from archives around the world, interviews with fellow shipmates and POWs, and letters half-forgotten in basements, The Jersey Brothers whisks readers from America's front porches to Roosevelt's White House, from Pearl Harbor to Midway and Bataan, and from the Pacific battlefronts to the stately home of a fierce New Jersey mother. At its heart The Jersey Brothers is a family story, written by one of its own in intimate, novelistic detail. It is a remarkable tale of agony and triumph; of an ordinary young man who shows extraordinary courage as the enemy does everything short of killing him; and of brotherly love tested under the tortures of war."--Jacket
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Extent
xiv, 588 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Note
Maps on lining papers
Contents
  • April 1942, Luzon, the Philippines
  • Benny
  • Helen
  • Bill
  • Cabanatuan, Spring 1942
  • White House Map Room, April 1942
  • "This force is bound for Tokyo"
  • Barton, 1930-1941
  • The perils of escape-and a little baseball
  • A brother's burden: the search
  • Midway
  • Under siege: JN-25
  • To Davao: en avant!
  • And then there was one: USS Enterprise vs. Japan
  • The other war: Army-Navy football
  • Happy days at the penal colony
  • Winter's grief
  • Escape: crime and punishment
  • Farewell to the White House
  • A tale of atrocities
  • August 1943: Allied War Summit, Quebec, Canada
  • Revenge on the innocent and a covert plan
  • Secrets inside the oxygen tent
  • Hero of Bataan vs. the War Department
  • Bad tidings
  • Politics in Brisbane
  • "Proceed to Kwajalein"
  • The best-laid plans
  • Initiation at Saipan
  • Decampment
  • September 1944, Lilac Hedges
  • Hopes dashed
  • Setbacks
  • Through a prism: MacArthur's return
  • What Benny knew
  • The Oryoko Maru
  • End game in the Pacific
  • A sailor's nightmare
  • In the end, a question of casualties
  • and sea power
  • No peace at Lilac Hedges
  • Final hours
Isbn
9781501104169
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Label
The Jersey brothers : a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home
Title
The Jersey brothers
Title remainder
a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home
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Sally Mott Freeman
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • Documents the extraordinary story of three brothers in World War II, describing the rescue mission launched by the elder two when their youngest brother was declared missing in action in the Philippines
  • "They are three brothers, all navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of World War II's most crucial moments. Bill is tapped by Franklin D. Roosevelt to run the first Map Room in Washington. Benny is the gunnery and antiaircraft officer on the USS Enterprise, one of the only ships to escape Pearl Harbor and, by the end of 1942, the last aircraft carrier left in the Pacific to defend against the Japanese. Barton, the youngest, gets a plum commission in the Navy Supply Corps because his mother wants him out of harm's way. But this protection plan backfires when Barton is sent to the Philippines and listed as missing-in-action after a Japanese attack. Now it is up to Bill and Benny to rescue him. Based on ten years of research drawn from archives around the world, interviews with fellow shipmates and POWs, and letters half-forgotten in basements, The Jersey Brothers whisks readers from America's front porches to Roosevelt's White House, from Pearl Harbor to Midway and Bataan, and from the Pacific battlefronts to the stately home of a fierce New Jersey mother. At its heart The Jersey Brothers is a family story, written by one of its own in intimate, novelistic detail. It is a remarkable tale of agony and triumph; of an ordinary young man who shows extraordinary courage as the enemy does everything short of killing him; and of brotherly love tested under the tortures of war."--Jacket
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DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Freeman, Sally Mott,
Dewey number
  • 940.54/7252092
  • B
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • plates
Index
no index present
LC call number
D767.4
LC item number
.F78 2017
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Cross, Barton
  • Cross family
  • Cross, Helen
  • Mott, William C
  • United States
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Prisoners of war
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
Label
The Jersey brothers : a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home, Sally Mott Freeman
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Maps on lining papers
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-574)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Contents
April 1942, Luzon, the Philippines -- Benny -- Helen -- Bill -- Cabanatuan, Spring 1942 -- White House Map Room, April 1942 -- "This force is bound for Tokyo" -- Barton, 1930-1941 -- The perils of escape-and a little baseball -- A brother's burden: the search -- Midway -- Under siege: JN-25 -- To Davao: en avant! -- And then there was one: USS Enterprise vs. Japan -- The other war: Army-Navy football -- Happy days at the penal colony -- Winter's grief -- Escape: crime and punishment -- Farewell to the White House -- A tale of atrocities -- August 1943: Allied War Summit, Quebec, Canada -- Revenge on the innocent and a covert plan -- Secrets inside the oxygen tent -- Hero of Bataan vs. the War Department -- Bad tidings -- Politics in Brisbane -- "Proceed to Kwajalein" -- The best-laid plans -- Initiation at Saipan -- Decampment -- September 1944, Lilac Hedges -- Hopes dashed -- Setbacks -- Through a prism: MacArthur's return -- What Benny knew -- The Oryoko Maru -- End game in the Pacific -- A sailor's nightmare -- In the end, a question of casualties -- and sea power -- No peace at Lilac Hedges -- Final hours
Control code
980600010
Dimensions
24 cm.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Extent
xiv, 588 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9781501104169
Lccn
2016021592
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
Label
The Jersey brothers : a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home, Sally Mott Freeman
Publication
Note
Maps on lining papers
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-574)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Contents
April 1942, Luzon, the Philippines -- Benny -- Helen -- Bill -- Cabanatuan, Spring 1942 -- White House Map Room, April 1942 -- "This force is bound for Tokyo" -- Barton, 1930-1941 -- The perils of escape-and a little baseball -- A brother's burden: the search -- Midway -- Under siege: JN-25 -- To Davao: en avant! -- And then there was one: USS Enterprise vs. Japan -- The other war: Army-Navy football -- Happy days at the penal colony -- Winter's grief -- Escape: crime and punishment -- Farewell to the White House -- A tale of atrocities -- August 1943: Allied War Summit, Quebec, Canada -- Revenge on the innocent and a covert plan -- Secrets inside the oxygen tent -- Hero of Bataan vs. the War Department -- Bad tidings -- Politics in Brisbane -- "Proceed to Kwajalein" -- The best-laid plans -- Initiation at Saipan -- Decampment -- September 1944, Lilac Hedges -- Hopes dashed -- Setbacks -- Through a prism: MacArthur's return -- What Benny knew -- The Oryoko Maru -- End game in the Pacific -- A sailor's nightmare -- In the end, a question of casualties -- and sea power -- No peace at Lilac Hedges -- Final hours
Control code
980600010
Dimensions
24 cm.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Extent
xiv, 588 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9781501104169
Lccn
2016021592
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations

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