GI Jive An Army Bandsman in World War II.
- Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1982.
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 The Sax Section; 2 ASTPeewee; 3 Mail Call; 4 Sharps and Flats; 5 Halfway around the World; 6 The Lizard's Tail; Maps; Papua: the Lizard's Tail; 7 The Buckeye Division; 8 A Thousand Ships; The Philippine Invasion Route; 9 Down the Central Plains; Illustrations; The Luzon Campaign; 10 The Battle of Manila; Manil, 1945; 11 After the Battle; 12 Baguio and Balete Pass; 13 Cagayan Valley Blitzkrieg; 14 Atomic Malaria; 15 Sentimental Journey; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
""Frank Mathias was a teenager in a small town when the draft swept him into the army and then halfway around the world to the jungles of the South Pacific. He served in the huge invasion force in the Battle of Manila, the deadliest single battle of the Pacific War. As an army musician attached to the 37th Infantry Division, Mathias saw the war from the bottom of the heap, where young privates lived and died. In his best selling book The GI Generation, Mathias tells of growing up in small-town America between the wars. In GI Jive he recalls the gritty experience of combat as well as the music.
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Mathias, Frank Furlong.
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 37th --Biography.
Band musicians. Mathias, Frank Furlong. Soldiers. United States. Army. Infantry Division, 37th. World War, 1939-1945. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American. Band musicians--United States--Biography. Soldiers--United States--Biography.