Download e-book for kindle: So Long for Now: A Sailor's Letters from the USS Franklin by Jerry L. Rogers,Robert M. Utley

By Jerry L. Rogers,Robert M. Utley

ISBN-10: 0806156325

ISBN-13: 9780806156323

Elden Duane Rogers died on March 19, 1945, one of many 8 hundred who perished at the plane service USS Franklin that day. It used to be his 19th birthday.

Write domestic frequently, the military instructed sailors like Elden, considering it is going to sustain morale between sailors and people watching for them stateside. yet they have been advised to not write something approximately the place they have been, the place they'd been, the place they have been going, what they have been doing, or maybe what the elements used to be like. Spies have been presumed in all places, and free lips may possibly sink ships. sooner than a sailor’s letter should be sealed and despatched, a censor learn it and with a razor blade reduce out phrases that informed too much.

So lengthy for Now reconstructs the misplaced global of a sailor’s everyday life in international battle II, piecing jointly letters from Elden’s relations in Vega, Texas, and from his female friend, the untold tales in the back of Elden’s personal letters, and the context of the battle itself. Historian Jerry L. Rogers delves prior censored letters constrained to small speak and native gossip to conjure the risk, pleasure, boredom, and sacrifices that sailors within the Pacific theater persevered. He follows Elden from enlistment within the military via each conflict the USS Franklin saw. Flight deck crashes, kamikaze hits, and tensions and alliances aboard send all equipped to the unheard of chaos and casualties of the japanese air assault on March 19.

“So lengthy for now,” Elden signed off—never “Goodbye.” This relocating paintings poignantly confronts the horrors of warfare, giving voice to a tender sailor, the rustic he served, the friends and family he left in the back of, and the wish that has sustained them.

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