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William E. Bobbitt Memoir, 1996

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Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This memoir constitutes a very descriptive picture of the Pacific Theater during World War II. Bobbitt begins his narrative by describing his entrance into the war and his first post in Hawaii. Following this service, his unit was sent to Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Bobbitt describes the horrors of battles fought before they landed on the Island. They were next sent to relatively peaceful New Britain, an island in the Bismarck Archipelago.Bobbitt and Company L saw heavy...
Dates: 1996