ebooks Surviving Andersonville: One Prisoner's Recollections of the Civil War's Most Notorious Camp by Ed Glennan; David A. Ranzan in History

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More than 150;000 American Jews served in the air war during World War II. Despite acts of heroism and commendations; they were subject to bigotry and scorn by their fellow servicemen. Jews were sometimes characterized as disloyal and cowardly; malingering in the slanderous (and non-existent) "Jewish Quartermaster Corps" or sitting out the war in easy assignments. Based on interviews with more than 100 Jewish air veterans; this oral history features the recollections of pilots; crew members and support personnel in all theaters of combat and all branches of the service; including Jewish women of the Women Airforce Service Pilots. The subjects recall their combat experiences; lives as POWs; and anti-Semitism in the ranks; as well as human interest anecdotes such as encounters with the Tuskegee Airmen.