TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mathias,Frank Furlong
TI  - GI Jive: An Army Bandsman in World War II
SN  - 9780813148533
AV  - D811 .G555 1982
PY  - 1982///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Mathias, Frank Furlong.
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Infantry Division, 37th
KW  - Biography
KW  - Band musicians
KW  - Mathias, Frank Furlong
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - United States. Army. Infantry Division, 37th
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Personal narratives, American
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - ""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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