Etta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She was a school teacher whose life changed forever on that Sunday morning in June 1942 when the Japanese military invaded Attu Island and Etta became a prisoner of war.
Etta and her sister moved to the Territory of Alaska in 1922. She planned to stay only one year as a vacation, but this 40 something year old nurse from back east met Foster Jones and fell in love. They married and for nearly twenty years they lived, worked and taught in remote Athabascan, Alutiiq, Yup’ik and Aleut villages where they were the only outsiders. Their last assignment was Attu.
After the invasion, Etta became a prisoner of war and spent 39 months in Japanese POW sites located in Yokohama and Totsuka. She was the first female Caucasian taken prisoner by a foreign enemy on the North American Continent since the War of 1812, and she was the first American female released by the Japanese at the end of World War II.
Using descriptive letters that she penned herself, her unpublished manuscript, historical documents and personal interviews with key people who were involved with events as they happened, her extraordinary story is told for the first time in this book.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface 9 To Alaska 13 Tip Sheet Updated 10/9/2013 Tanana: 1922-1923 27 Tanana: 1923-1930 37 Tanana, Tatitlek, and Old Harbor: 1928-1932 53 Prom Kodiak to Kipnuk: 1932 70 Kipnuk Culture: 1932 79 Letters from Kipnuk: 1932-1933 91 Kipnuk School: 1932-1934 112 Letters from Kipnuk: 1934-1937 119 Old Harbor: 1937-1941 135 Attu: 1941-1942 148 Invasion: 1942 167 The Australians: January-July 1942 181 Bund Hotel, Yokohama: July 1942 193 Yokohama Yacht Club: 1942-1943 203 Yokohama Yacht Club: 1943-1944 213 Totsuka: 1944-1945 227 Rescue: August 31, 1945 245 Return to the United States: September 1945 255 Home: 1945-1965 266 Afterword by Ray Hudson 279 Acknowledgements 281 Notes 283 Bibliography 305 IndexMengenai Pengarang
Ray Hudson lived and worked as a teacher in the Aleutian Islands from 1964 to 1992. He is an author, poet, and woodblock print artist who has exhibited in museums.Lebih banyak ebook daripada pengarang yang sama / Penyunting
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