Last Letters from Attu: The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese POWGraphic Arts Books, 2009/11/05 - 319 ページ Etta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She was a school teacher whose life changed forever on that Sunday morning in June 1942 when the Japanese military invaded Attu Island and Etta became a prisoner of war. Etta and her sister moved to the Territory of Alaska in 1922. She planned to stay only one year as a vacation, but this 40 something year old nurse from back east met Foster Jones and fell in love. They married and for nearly twenty years they lived, worked and taught in remote Athabascan, Alutiiq, Yup’ik and Aleut villages where they were the only outsiders. Their last assignment was Attu. After the invasion, Etta became a prisoner of war and spent 39 months in Japanese POW sites located in Yokohama and Totsuka. She was the first female Caucasian taken prisoner by a foreign enemy on the North American Continent since the War of 1812, and she was the first American female released by the Japanese at the end of World War II. Using descriptive letters that she penned herself, her unpublished manuscript, historical documents and personal interviews with key people who were involved with events as they happened, her extraordinary story is told for the first time in this book. |
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... snow would haunt her for years to come. Etta was scared. Her world had changed. The whole world had changed. The ship on which Etta stood was on course for Japan. As the sky grew darker, one of the grimy soldiers used the blunt end of ...
... snow ? Would she be happy being far from her family and everything that was familiar ? Who knew what could happen to two single women thousands of miles away from home ? Finally, Etta decided that, yes, she could leave the city.
... snow came . As poet Robert Service says , “ Full of hush to the brim . ” There was a brooding , tangible something in that silence that sometimes seemed friendly , sometimes frightening .业 11 WITH FAULTLESS MANNERS , this friendly ...
... snow, and cold, we blessed his thoughtful kindness. There were offers of help from everyone in town. One brought us a gasoline stove, another cut our wood for the heater, and others fixed storm windows and doors. We were given advice ...
... snow to travel by dogsled, and the lakes were still frozen. It took two days, stopping one night at a roadhouse about ten miles from Tanana. At the Fish Lake Roadhouse, we found that the owner was away because he was sick, but ...