Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in great condition. No notes or highlighting. Name and gift message in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Here is a provocative autobiographical story of a naive young girl who answered her country’s call in 1943 during the height of World War II as did twenty thousand other young courageous women. She joined the U.S. Marine Corps full of patriotic fervor anxious to travel looking for adventure and love hoping to find that handsome Marine who was perpetually marching on the recruiting posters. Instead she matured into a woman who eventually recognized her own worth to her country and to the Corps. As the battles for the Pacific Islands against Japan raged on for four years claiming thousands of Marine lives she realized what it really meant to “free a Marine to fight.