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Stilwell and Mountbatten in Burma
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ISBN: 157441674X 1574416863 9781574416862 9781574416749 Year: 2017 Publisher: Denton, Texas University of North Texas Press


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From Texas to Tinian and Tokyo Bay : The Memoirs of Captain J. R. Ritter, Seabee Commander during the Pacific War, 1942-1945
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ISBN: 1574417819 Year: 2019 Publisher: Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press,

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"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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