In the midst of America's terrifying Pacific War with Japan in 1944, a 27 year old Navy lieutenant met a pretty university coed at an informal party. They spent the next 14 evenings together, falling in love in the San Francisco Bay Area. Separated by circumstances and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, they stayed connected with love letters as he performed his duties as Barracks Officer at Naval Air Station, Alameda and she began her year as President of the Senior Class at the University of Nevada. Fully 153 of their letters are reproduced here, revealing a love aborning with poetry and passion. Enroute, the former lieutenant became a published historian. Now in his late 90s, he brings the Pacific War to life with 12 insightful essays which illustrate the background of chaos and devastation which always threatened to cut this love affair short.

Lovers in Wartime, 1944 to 1945: Letters from then, insights from now...

Biographies & Memoirs

Bornet, Vaughn Davis

Leaders & Notable People

Dr. Vaughn Davis Bornet

Four emotional diaries illuminate trips taken by three family members during the Prosperity Decade of the 1920s; then came the Depression. The Mother travels thousands of miles by rented train within the United States. Yellowstone, she write, brought "wonderment." A Swarthmore coed celebrates her graduation with a Grand Tour of London, Paris, Switzerland, and Italy. A Successful engineer Father visits Berlin, Brussels, and Paris; then takes his first airplane flight across the English Channel. Once the depression has taken over, the engineer will drive his wife in a Chandler auto from Rydal, PA. to Ozona, Texas and to Maimi Beach, Florida, seeking a new source of income. The editor who put this book together was the youngest member of the diary writing family. Now an ages research historian, his memory brings unity and anecdotes to the book, which reveals Life as it was lived by a family long, long, ago.

Happy Travel Diaries 1925 to 1933

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Lovers in Wartime, 1944 to 1945: Letters from then, insights from now...

Happy Travel Diaries 1925 to 1933