My great grandfather served in WW2 (Pacific theater). My mother gave it to me, as I'm the only one on her side since him, to have served. Somehow, this book survived for nearly 70 years. I thought it was very interesting and wanted to share.

Great Find! I don't suppose you would be willing to make a PDF of that and let some of us have a copy would ya????

Revenge,
I will try. It's still bound and I'm not an expert w/ Adobe. It is extremely interesting. It details their weapons/specs, uniforms, culture, etc.

I would love to have a PDF copy to add to our reference collection at the museum. This is one of the manuals that we are missing.

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What museum?

Eisenhower Presidential Museum.

Great thread!

Gigem- Don't wreck the binding trying to do this. I would rather not have a copy as long as yours stays intact and in good conidition.

Revenge,
I just spoke w/ my mother so I could run this idea by her. We would like to donate the manual to the library.

Can I have your contact info?

This has got me reminiscent. The same great grandfather that was the owner of this manual also carried a pocket Bible during the war. He had metal covers on the front and back. He carried it over his chest at all time. Now the Bible is missing one of its metal covers. The missing cover was lost when it deflected a round.

I carried that same Bible in my breast pocket on every one of my 300+ missions in Iraq.

Well done GigEm01 - VERY WELL DONE!

Thanks Norman.

GigEm!

Kudos to you GigEm!! And, that Bible story is awesome!

reread and have to ask-did the metal cover deflect a round in WWII or Iraq?

Thank you for every one of those 300, too!

Very Very Cool, Gigem....!!

Manchu,
The round was deflected in WWII. One of the other cool things about the story is that while I was in Iraq, I was actually thumbing thru the Bible. There was a newspaper clipping inside about the casualties in the ongoing Battle at Iwo Jima.

My mother currently has the Bible now. I will ask her to scan the newspaper clipping and I will post it on here.

This is a newspaper clipping that I found inside the Bible while in Iraq.

Here is the Bible that my great grandfather carried in WWII, and that I carried in Iraq.

Gig 'Em, sorry I am just getting back to you, I was in class all evening.

my email is trelkins@ksu.edu
I use my K-State one instead of my NARA one because the Gov email filter spams everything that isn't from a .gov address.

The full text is available online:

http://www.scribd.com/1944-Soldiers-Guide-to-the-Japanese-Army/d/18786807

Very cool Bible story

I want y'all to read that newspaper article and let this sink in:

19,938 American Casualties

766 casualties per day or 1 casualty every 2 minutes.

Very Cool GigEm.

And that article is very sobering. I can't imagine what it was like on Iwo Jima for those Marines.

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I was actually thumbing thru the Bible

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I didnt realize you were a Bible thumber

Man, GigEm, talk about a priceless heirloom!!

That article was sobering, plus I just finished rereading "Flags of our Fathers" so it really sinks in.

Thanks for sharing all this with us!