From the time when he joined the US destroyer "Howorth" during the Pacific War in April 1944 until his death a year later in a kamikaze attack off Okinawa, Yeoman Second Class Orvill Raines wrote a series of letters to his young bride. Due to Raines's special relationship with the officer responsible for censoring, the correspondence was ...
The Moluccas Islands; the invasions of Leyte, Mindoro and Luzon; Iwo Jima; Okinawa - these and other important naval actions of World War II are recounted in this work by an enlisted sailor and former journalist, Orvill Raines, in poignant and graphic letters to his wife.
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Westview Press
Date Published: 1994
Description: Fine/Fine. 306 Raines wrote a remarkable series of letters to his young bride until his death in a kamikaze attack off Okinawa in 1944. read more
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