Stories of Faith and Courage From World War II (71 page)

Greene, Bob.
Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen
. New York: Perennial, An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2002.

Harris, John.
Dunkirk: ‘The Storms of War.’
London: David & Charles, 1980.

Hersey, John.
Hiroshima
. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, 1946, 1989.

Hornfischer, James D.
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
. New York: Bantam Books, 2004.

Hoyt, Edwin P.
The GI’s War: The Story of American Soldiers in Europe in World War II
. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1988.

Hughes, R. Kent.
1001 Great Stories and Quotes
. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1998.

Jenkins, Roy.
Churchill: A Biography
. New York: Plume Books, 2002.

Langer, Howard J., ed.
World War II
. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Inc., 1999.

Lewis, C. S.
The Screwtape Letters
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Lewis, Jon E., ed.
The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II
. New York: Running Press, 2002.

Lewis, Jon E. ed.
D-Day: As They Saw It
. New York: Running Press, 2004.

Litoff, Judy Barrett, and David C., Smith, ed.
Since You Went Away: World War II Letters from American Women on the Home Front
. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Lord, Walter.
The Miracle of Dunkirk
. Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1998.

Mao Tse-Tung.
Quotations from Chairman Mao
. Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1966.

Mason, John T. Jr., ed.
The Pacific War Remembered: An Oral History Collection
. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1986.

Miller, Donald L., revised by Henry Steele Commanger.
The Story of World War II
, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1945, 2001.

Miller, Francis Trevelyan.
History of World War II
. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1945.

Mohri, Tsuneyuki.
Rainbow over Hell: The Death-row Deliverance of a World War II Assassin
. Nampa, OH: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 2006.

Monsarrat, Nicholas.
The Cruel Sea
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951.

Morison, Samuel Eliot.
The Two-Ocean War: The Definitive Short History of the United States Navy in World War II
. New York: Ballantine Books, 1963.

North, Oliver.
War Stories III: The Heroes Who Defeated Hitler
. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc. 2005.

O’Neill, Brian D.
Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer: B-17s over Germany
. Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Aero, A Division of Tab Books, Inc., 1989.

O’Neill, William L.
The Oxford Essential Guide to World War II
. New York: Oxford University Press/ Berkley Books, 2002.

Potter, E. B., and Chester W. Nimitz,
Seapower: A Naval History
. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1960.

Prange, Gordon W.
God’s Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor
. Washington: Brassey’s Inc., 1990.

Rickenbacker, Edward V.
Rickenbacker: An Autobiography
. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967.

Rose, Darlene Deibler.
Evidence Not Seen: A Woman’s Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II
. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1988.

Schultz, Duane.
The Last Battle Station: The Saga of the USS Houston
. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985.

Skelly, Patrick G.
The Military Chaplaincy of the U. S. Army, Focusing on World War II Chaplains in Combat
. Masters Thesis, Norwich University, 2007.

Snaddon, Daniel C.
Through the Valley of the Shadow: A War Prisoner’s Struggle for Survival
. Homosassa Spring, FL: Christian Missions Press, 1990.

Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Prayer Book
. Compiled by Gerald Mygatt and Henry Darlington, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1944.

Spector, Ronald H.
The Eagle against the Sun: The American War with Japan
. New York: The Free Press, 1985.

Spellman, Francis J.
The Risen Soldier
. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1944.

Sperry, Willard L., ed.
Prayers for Private Devotions in War-Time
. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1943.

Stagg, J. M.
Forecast for Overlord: June 6, 1944
. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1971.

The Armed Forces Officer
, Washington, DC: Department of Defense, 1950.

Tobin, James.
Ernie Pyle’s War
. New York: Free Press, 1997.

Warren, Rick.
The Purpose Driven Life
. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2002.

White, David F.
Bitter Ocean: Battle of the Atlantic
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.

Winters, Harold A.
Battling the Elements: Weather and Terrain in the Conduct of War
. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Zamperini, Louis, with David Rensin.
Devil at My Heels: A World War II Hero’s Saga of Torment, Survival, and Forgiveness
. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003.

N
OTES

*
Langer, World War II, p. 30. Quoting from the book, “…And Pass the Ammunition,” by Howell M. Forgy.

1.
The Armed Forces Officer
, p. 6.

2.
Lord,
The Miracle of Dunkirk
, 25.

3.
Ibid., 272.

4.
Mary Gardiner Brainard, American poet, 1860.

5.
C. Horace Maycock, “The Darkest Hour,” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.

6.
Matthew 6:34

7.
King George VI Christmas Day broadcast, www.royal.gov.uk. The poem was written by Minnie Louise Haskins in 1908 and was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth.

8.
Jenkins,
Churchill
, 592.

9.
The Churchill Centre, www.winstonchurchill.org.

10.
Ibid.

11.
Lord,
The Miracle of Dunkirk
, 145.

12.
Ibid., 167.

13.
Ibid., 111.

14.
Ibid., 72.

15.
Ibid., 112.

16.
Ibid., 272.

17.
Winters,
Battling the Elements
, 23.

18.
Suze Bond, “Leaving Dunkirk: My Father’s Diary Account,” www.bbc.co.uk

19.
Bill Towey, “The Luck of the Draw,” www.bbc.co.uk.

20.
Ibid.

21.
Ibid.

22.
Lord,
The Miracle of Dunkirk
, 54.

23.
T. J. Spiers, “Shot Down Over Dunkirk 28 May 1940,” www.bbc.co.uk.

24.
Paul Davey, “Falling Back to Dunkirk,” www.bbc.co.uk.

25.
The Churchill Centre, www.winstonchurchill.org.

26.
Harris,
Dunkirk
, 151.

27.
Ibid.

28.
From a sermon by Rev. Ken Streitenberger, Epworth UMC., www. epworth.com

29.
“The War of a Green Howard, Bill Cheall’s Story,” www.greenhowards.org.uk.

30.
John Beard, quoted in the “The Battle of Britain, 1940,”
Eyewitness to History
, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com.

31.
Ibid.

32.
Godefroy, Lucky Thirteen, 61.

33.
Ibid., 132.

34.
Kathleen Rainer, “Downed Pilots in Sussex,” www.bbc.co.uk.

35.
www.battleofbritain1940.net.

36.
John Gillespie Magee, Jr., “High Flight.” www.skygod.com.

37.
Ronald Reagan, “Address to the Nation on the Challenger Disaster,” January 28, 1986, www.reaganlibrry.com.

38.
Sheila Delaney, “A Miraculous Escape,”
Time Witnesses
. www.timewitnesses.org.

39.
Dennis Robinson, “Shot Down in the Battle of Britain,” www.bbc.co.uk.

40.
Ibid.

41.
Norman English, “A Child in the Battle of Britain,” www.bbc.co.uk.

42.
Sermon paraphrased by J. Brock in an article at www.sartma.com.

43.
Ellen Batten, as told to Elizabeth Perez, “The Faith of a Child-Light in Darkness,” WW2 People’s War, www.bbc.co.uk.

44.
The Churchill Centre, www.winstonchurchill.org

45.
www.archives.gov.

46.
www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu

47.
Time
magazine, Dec. 15, 1941, “What the People Said,” www.time.com.

48.
National Park Service Memorial to USS
Arizona
. www.nps.gov/usar.

49.
Ibid.

50.
Starting Point Bible
, article on “Courage,” 1567.