Frank Dietrich / Albert Dietrich
Army Gi, Pacifist Co
- Fordham University Press
- 2005
- Gebunden
- 408 Seiten
- ISBN 9780823223787
Frank and Albert Dietrich were identical twins whose lives took very different directions during World War II. Drafted into the Army Air Corps and trained as a radio operator, Frank was shipped to the Philippines in 1945, where as a sergeant in the Fifth Air Force he prepared for the invasion of Japan. Albert, a pacifist, struggled mightily to become a conscientious objector and spent two years building dams, saving farmland, and helping the poor at Civilian Service Camps in South Dakota, Iowa, and Florida. Raised in a close, religious, Pittsburg family, Frank and Albert were inseparable as boys, sharing a strong social conscience. Divided by
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