Duwayne K. Redmann

Broschiertes Buch

The Nathan Hale Boy's Club

D.K. Redmann's Marine Service Record

Beschreibung

The Nathan Hale Boy's Club is the personal US Marine Corps service record of the author, Duwayne K. Redmann. D.K. joined the Marines immediately after his high school graduation in June 1946 with a burning desire to fly and "see the world." At the same time in Washington D.C., Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, (later named the very first Secretary of Defense) was recruiting members to join his Boy's Club, a clandestine group of leaders and patriots focused on assisting the Nationalists during the late years of China's Civil War. In The Nathan Hale Boy's Club, Duwayne details his military training, flying missions and personal interactions with a wide array of players connected to Secretary Forrestal's surreptitious involvement in China's Civil War. The reader is exposed to the intricate interweaving of world politics, economic influences and leader egos.

Autor

Duwayne K. Redmann, aka DK, was a small-town Midwesterner anxious to get on with life after the end of WWII and his own high school graduation. With his mother, a one-room school teacher and his dad, a chronically ill truck driver and three younger siblings, Duwayne knew there was no inheritance in his future, so he decided to "join up" immediately following graduation. Choosing the Marine Corps was a natural decision after hearing all the heroic war stories and seeing all the movie newsreels of the last several years. As chronicalled in his memoirs, Duwayne was only 17 when he enlisted and needed his folk's permission to join. Early in his saga, when he returned home for a holiday visit, he reveals his high school sweetheart. Later she becomes his wife and mother of their three children. Duwayne and his family lived a simple, lower middle class, Christian lifestyle. Normalcy was the theme of his life following his ten years of Marine flying escapades detailed in his book. Six grands and ten great grands later, they all mourned his passing at 88 years old. DK, ever true to his 50 year secrecy promise to Secretary Forrestal, wrote his memoirs beginning in 2010. He had not even shared most of his military activities with his wife, until he wrote them in this manuscript. As he later stated, he just wanted his children and their offspring to hear "what Grandpa had done when he flew for the Marine Corps."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Archway Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 912g
• ISBN-13: 9781665777285
• ISBN-10: 1665777281
• Artikelnr.: 74979842