The Tenth Day【電子書籍】[ Don Safran ]

＜p＞He had assumed it would be a softball assignment despite his nerves still being raw after Iwo and Okinawa. After all, the cargo was Army wives. She had wanted to take the new Pan Am commercial flight to Europe and arrive overnight, but the Army appealed to her sense of duty, and she agreed to join the other wives. The sailing would take ten days.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As WWII ended, the U.S. War Department created a program to send Army wives overseas to join their husbands. The first sailing is April 12, 1946, from New York for Bremerhaven, Germany, on the USS Maxwell Gordon.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jim Stanton, on his last assignment as a Marine Corps Major before being mustered out, heads the security detail on this ship carrying 397 women and children. Diane Mason, the wife of a major general, is aboard as the representative of the wives. Neither will remember this as the trip they had anticipated.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As the Maxwell Gordon moves into the Atlantic shipping lane, early thoughts of an easy run disappear: Radi．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る