Dear America: My Name is America : the Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, a World War II SoldierA seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France. |
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