The Bush Blaster Battalion: Army Anti-Aircraft in New Guinea & The Philippines

Read the little known story of the World War II Army Anti-Aircraft units in the Pacific, and how they helped win the war. ? Discover how and why one ack-ack battalion became known as the Bush Blasters. ? Learn how the men adapted to the danger, the heat, the rain, the mud, the mosquitoes, the misery and the boredom of life in the field. ? Read about strange and fascinating local customs of the New Guinea and Filipino people, from headhunting to John the Baptist. ? Find out how the Filipino people continued to fight and survive during years of Japanese occupation, and how they reacted to the arrival of the Allies. ? Learn the amazing hardships the Philippines endured, and how quickly conditions changed after the Allies arrived. ? Read letters from home, and how the war was fought in the cornfields and feedlots of the Midwest, as well as at the front. ? Get a feeling of the longings for home and the girls they left behind. ? See what memories still linger fifty-seven years after the war. "He has quite a talent for writing." -W. H. Ownby, local draft board official "By the way, Kenny informs me that I'm now a literary sensation in the field of journalism. It seems that the local readers of the Journal Gazette are being held breathless by some of my letters." -Excerpt from one of John's letters