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The F6F, more properly the Grumman F6F Hellcat, was a carrier based fighter aircraft. Utilized almost exclusively in the Pacific Theater, it was one of the most effective fighters of any nationality during WWII.
The infantry has been described as the “poor bloody infantry.” Ernie Pyle called them the “mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys.” These are some stories from the grunt life.
The Short Timers, a novel by Gustav Hasford, was the foundation for Stanley Kubrick’s war film “Full Metal Jacket”, but it was a close-knit group of Marines called “The Snuffies” that inspired all the characters.
Erziehung Vor Verdun, or Education Before Verdun, is a powerful semi-autobiographical novels set during WWI by Prussian-born Jew Arnold Zweig.
Any number of OIF/OEF war bloggers and memoir writers have written about the misery and tedium of their service, the desolate mind-numbing hours of boredom, fatigue, and discomfort punctuated by short bursts of adrenaline, fear, and often exhilaration (or sometimes...
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