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Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II

Book by Belton Y. Cooper; Presidio Press, 1998

Subjects:

Cooper, Belton Y, Sherman Tank, Soldiers--United States--Biography, United States--Army--Biography, United States--Army--Ordnance And Ordnance Stores, World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives, American, World War, 1939-1945--Tank Warfare

Collections: History, Entire Library

This memoir reveals what life was like in an American armoured division in action in WW2. Lieutenant Cooper was the man responsible for the repair of the division's tanks and his memoirs reveal that his task was fraught with challenges.
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Death Throes of a Dynasty: Letters and Diaries of Charles and Bessie Ewing, Missionaries to China

Book by E. G. Ruoff; Kent State University Press, 1990

Subjects:

China--Church History--19th Century--Sources, China--Church History--20th Century--Sources, China--History--1861-1912--Sources, China--History--1912-1928--Sources, Ewing, Bessie--D. 1966, Ewing, Charles--D. 1927, Missionaries--China--Correspondence, Missionaries--China--Diaries, Missionaries--United States--Correspondence, Missionaries--United States--Diaries

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Hudson, Ohio, until his death in 1989; and second, the official records of the American Board...minor incident involving the death of two German priests in...possible. Following the death of von Ketteler, though...
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Hitler's Secret Pirate Fleet: The Deadliest Ships of World War II

Book by James P. Duffy; University of Nebraska Press, 2005

Subjects:

Cruisers (Warships), World War, 1939-1945--Naval Operations, German

Collections: History, Entire Library

...ships approached. The gunnery officer kept in touch with his crews, giving them the ever closing range and...either along the port wing of the bridge or on the deck...them from freezing to death. Meanwhile the ship lumbered...
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Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II

Book by John C. McManus; Presidio Press, 2000

Subjects:

Airmen--United States--History--20th Century, World War, 1939-1945--Aerial Operations, American, World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives, American

Collections: History, Entire Library

In his study of aerial combat in World War II, McManus illustrates how the dangers facing the airmen might come from within the aircraft as well as without: piston engines and airframes, for example, were not reliable.
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The Greatest War: Americans in Combat, 1941-1945

Book by Gerald Astor; Presidio Press, 1999

Subjects:

United States--Armed Forces--Biography, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American, World War, 1939-1945--United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

With eyewitness accounts of battle, combat and the brutal realities of total war, The Greatest War is an insight into the feelings, thoughts and actions of many thousands of American men called to arms and sent to fight in conflict.

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Jarrell's the Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

Journal article by Patrick J. Horner; The Explicator, Vol. 36, 1978

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Jarrells THE DEATH OF THE BALL TURRET GUNNER Most commentators on Randall Jarrell "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" have identified the poems theme as a condemnation...
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Plot as Repetition: John Irving's Narrative Experiments

Journal article by Debra Shostak; Critique, Vol. 37, 1995

Subjects:

Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism

Collections: Entire Library

...Randall Jarrell poem "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner". The poem reads: From...The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" from The Complete Poems...ultimately wrote the death of the ball turret gunner. Garps first, juvenile...
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Rethinking the Achievement of the Student Writer

Journal article by Claire Wyatt-Smith; Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, Vol. 20, 1997

Subjects:

Composition (Language arts)--Evaluation, Grading and marking (Students)--Standards

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Randall Jarrells poem, `The Death of The Ball Turret Gunner. Each student complied...students writing. The Death of The Ball Turret Gunner From my mothers sleep...Jarrell, R. (1982). The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. In S. Heaney and T...
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Mother of Battle: Volumnia and Her Son in Shakespeare's Coriolanus

Journal article by Coppélia Kahn; Differences, Vol. 4, 1992

Subjects:

Feminism, Feminist Criticism, Women, Women--United States

Collections: Entire Library

...Huston, Nancy. "The Matrix of War: Mothers and Heroes". Suleiman 119-36. Jarrell, Randall. "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner." The Complete Poems . New York: Farrar, 1969 .144. Joplin, Patricia Klindienst. "Ritual Work on...
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Jarrell, the Mother, the Marchen

Journal article by Alan Williamson; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 40, 1994

Subjects:

Jarrell, Randall--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poetry, Modern--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...sensuous blurring, and precarious triumph, of learning to walk. Or take Jarrells most famous single poem, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner": From my mothers sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles...

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Art Imitates War

Magazine article by Austin Bay; New Criterion, Vol. 24, June 2006

Subjects:

Art and history--Analysis, Art and history--Portrayals, Poets--Works

Collections: Entire Library

...but the best of it shares Thucydides commitment to permanence. Randall Jarrells five-line poem "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" is a compact war narrative. It has a classic, if highly compressed, narrative arc: birth, life, death, each...
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The War of Words

Magazine article by John Palattella; The Nation, Vol. 278, January 12, 2004

Subjects:

Dismantling Glory: Twentieth-Century Soldier Poetry (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

...player than a pawn. Few of Jarrells war poems offer better portrayals of a soldiers helplessness than "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner": "From my mothers sleep I fell into the State,/And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze./Six miles...
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"I Sing of Arms and the Man."

Magazine article by Philip Appleman; The Humanist, Vol. 61, November 2001

Subjects:

Literature--Analysis, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, in literature--Analysis, War and literature--Analysis, War poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Wars--Analysis

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...a la Homer or Milton, but in poets looking at small, specific, personal things, as in Randall Jarrells "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" or Dylan Thomas "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London"--fine poems, but few of them...
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Beauty Blasted

Magazine article by Alexandra Mullen; New Criterion, Vol. 21, February 2003

Subjects:

Wilfred Owen: A New Biography (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

...Tates "Ode to the Confederate...Jarrells "Death of a Ball-Turret Gunner" and Richard...above all the ironies and romance of his early death are powerful...out the news of the Armistice...reporting his death. For Owen...
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Skirmishing - (Part II)

Magazine article by D. Keith Mano; National Review, Vol. 36, October 19, 1984

Subjects:

Atwill, Lionel--Authorship, Gaines, Charles--Authorship, Noel, Hayes--Authorship, Pumping Iron (book)--Publishing, Recreation, Skirmish (game)--Personal narratives, Tactics, The Official Survival Game Manual (book)--Publishing

Collections: Entire Library

...chance on their heroism and death. Later, dead for a second time that day, I sat with the boisterous silent majority...though, even the maddest ball turret gunner among us, that everyone...fun. REal hoonyah kind of fun," said one. "But they...

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Joseph Bousson

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 9, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...a Pearl Harbor survivor, ball turret gunner in B-17 aircraft, participating in missions in the South Pacific during World War II, earning the rank of sergeant. He also served...and Anne. Preceding him in death are his son, Ronald on Nov...
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Richard G. "Dick" Koretke Lifelong Resident of Naperville

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 13, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...proudly but humbly served as a ball turret gunner in a B17 (Flying Fortress) in World War II with the 8th Air Force in England. He was with one of the first American bomber...Naperville. Dick was preceded in death by his wife, Barbara Jean...
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It's a Straight Gunfight, the Best Shot Wins.The Loser Dies in Flames; in an Unprecedented Account, a Serving Royal Navy Pilot Tells What It's Really like to Be at the Controls of a [Pounds Sterling]30m Attack Helicopter - and Reveals the Intense Emotional Aftermath of Unleashing Its Fearsome Weapons of War .....

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 18, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...high-magnification sight. At the back sat a gunner with a mounted general-purpose machinegun. Our main weapon, however, is the armour-piercing TOW missile. I had never...pretty girl breathed on me... It was all part of my training

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Jarrell, Randall

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...The Seven-League Crutches (1951), and The Woman at the Washington Zoo (1960). His best-known poem, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner," was a mediation on his experiences during World War II. In 1953 his critical essays were collected and published...

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