From Texas to Tinian and Tokyo Bay : the memoirs of Captain J. R. Ritter, Seabee commander during the Pacific War, 1942-1945 /
This is the memoir of J. R. Ritter (1902-1994), a civil engineer from Texas who became a U.S. Navy Seabee officer during World War II. The formal name of the Seabees is "U.S. Naval Construction Battalions" and they were responsible for building airstrips, barracks and other infrastructure...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Denton :
University of North Texas Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | North Texas military biography and memoir series ;
no. 17. |
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| Summary: | This is the memoir of J. R. Ritter (1902-1994), a civil engineer from Texas who became a U.S. Navy Seabee officer during World War II. The formal name of the Seabees is "U.S. Naval Construction Battalions" and they were responsible for building airstrips, barracks and other infrastructure for the troops. Ritter was first stationed in Alaska when Japan was thought to be planning an invasion through the Aleutians, then in the central Pacific, mainly on Tinian Island. He was on Tinian when the war ended. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 176 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-173) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781574417715 1574417711 |