LEADER 04023nim 2200505Ka 450 001 9910136238203321 005 20240912110542.6 010 $a0-06-265206-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000915803 035 $a(BIP)055641652 035 $a(ODN)ODN0002717418 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000915803 100 $a20161026d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auruna---||||| 181 $cspw$2rdacontent 182 $cs$2rdamedia 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAll the gallant men $eAn american sailor's firsthand account of pearl harbor. /$fDonald Stratton 205 $aUnabridged. 210 $cHarperCollins 215 $a1 online resource (6 audio files) $cdigital 330 $aThe New York Times bestselling memoir of survival and heroism at Pearl Harbor "An unforgettable story of unfathomable courage." ? Reader's Digest In this, the first memoir by a USS Arizona sailor, Donald Stratton delivers an inspiring and unforgettable eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack and his remarkable return to the fight. At 8:06 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Class Donald Stratton was consumed by an inferno. A million pounds of explosives had detonated beneath his battle station aboard the USS Arizona, barely fifteen minutes into Japan's surprise attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor. Near death and burned across two thirds of his body, Don, a nineteen-year-old Nebraskan who had been steeled by the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, summoned the will to haul himself hand over hand across a rope tethered to a neighboring vessel. Forty-five feet below, the harbor's flaming, oil-slick water boiled with enemy bullets; all around him the world tore itself apart. In this extraordinary never-before-told eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack?the only memoir ever written by a survivor of the USS Arizona?ninety-four-year-old veteran Donald Stratton finally shares his unforgettable personal tale of bravery and survival on December 7, 1941, his harrowing recovery, and his inspiring determination to return to the fight. Don and four other sailors made it safely across the same line that morning, a small miracle on a day that claimed the lives of 1,177 of their Arizona shipmates?approximately half the American fatalaties at Pearl Harbor. Sent to military hospitals for a year, Don refused doctors' advice to amputate his limbs and battled to relearn how to walk. The U.S. Navy gave him a medical discharge, believing he would never again be fit for service, but Don had unfinished business. In June 1944, he sailed back into the teeth of the Pacific War on a destroyer, destined for combat in the crucial battles of Leyte Gulf, Luzon, and Okinawa, thus earning the distinction of having been present for the opening shots and the final major battle of America's Second World War. As the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack approaches, Don, a great-grandfather of five and one of five living survivors of the Arizona, offers an unprecedentedly intimate reflection on the tragedy that drew America into the greatest armed conflict in history. All the Gallant Men is a book for the ages, one of the most remarkable?and remarkably inspiring?memoirs of any kind to appear in recent years 517 $aAll the Gallant Men 606 $aNonfiction$2OverDrive 606 $aBiography & Autobiography$2OverDrive 606 $aHistory$2OverDrive 606 $aMilitary$2OverDrive 610 $aHistory 610 $aBiography & Autobiography 610 $aBiography 615 17$aNonfiction. 615 7$aBiography & Autobiography. 615 7$aHistory. 615 7$aMilitary. 676 $a940.54/26693 B 686 $aBIO008000$aHIS027100$aHIS027150$2bisacsh 700 $aStratton$b Donald$01776043 702 $aGire$b Ken 702 $aOrtego$b Mike$4oth 906 $aAUDIO 912 $a9910136238203321 996 $aAll the gallant men$94291504 997 $aUNINA