“Index” in “True to My God and Country”
Aboulker, José, 96–97
Abrams Cohen, Beatrice (Bea), 24–24
African Americans, 32, 79, 163–165, 210n71
African American nurses, 192
African American servicemen, 82
African American women, 200n27
Aircrafts
AT-6, 55–57
AT-17, 57
B-17, 89, 159, 164–165, 212n87
Alaskan and Aleutian theater, 43
Aleutian Islands, 46
Algeria. See also Torch, ix, 5, 8, 63, 72, 95, 97, 103, 109, 212n2, 213n13
French Algeria, 29, 108, 188–189, 214n36, 215n51
Jews of Algeria, 13, 97, 102, 107–109, 111, 113, 191
Algiers, 8, 11, 14, 28, 67, 95–97, 100, 106, 108–110, 114, 186–188, 206n65, 212n1, 215n53
Bedeau labor camp, 107
Crémieux Decree, 97, 108, 214n36, 215n51
Allen, Fred, 80
Allied powers
Allied forces, Allied armies, 10, 28, 78, 95–97, 106–108, 125, 189, 203n53, 226n15
Allied governments, 125
Allied Intelligence Service, 11
Alper, Benedict, 28
Altman, Sidney, 117, 121–122, 190, 215n9
American servicemen, soldiers, 6, 76, 82–83, 92, 101–102, 112, 130, 135, 143, 146, 168
American Hebrew (magazine), 118, 121, 126, 190
American Jewish Committee, 50, 113
American Jewish Historical Society, 49
American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), 213n27, 220n44
American Theater Ribbon, 27, 119–120
American zone of occupation, 93, 198n24
Ammerman, George, 129
Anglo-American military command, Anglo-American forces, 29, 96–97, 212n2
Annapolis Naval Academy, 147
Antisemitism, ix-x, 1–3, 5–6, 32–34, 37–38, 42, 44, 48, 54–55, 69, 73, 75, 79, 83, 86, 93, 100, 113, 122, 138, 175, 204n15, 215n51
anti-Jewish jokes, 72–73
anti-Jewish prejudice, 1–2, 6, 38, 52, 82, 85, 188, 226n20, hostility, 2, 6, 27–28, 33, 49, 68–69, 71–72, 74, 78, 81–86, 92, 106, 183–184, 187–189, attitudes, x, 2, 12, 32, 34, 52, 39, 73, 76, 80, 84, 86, 92, 166, hatred, 89, perceptions, 106, slurs, 38, 73, 81, 91, 168, 175, 184 propaganda, 16, 188
antisemitic incident
in North Africa, 108–110
in Europe, 107
in military, 2, 5–6, 12, 34, 43, 68–69, 71, 81–82, 86
in America, 72
Appel, Samuel, 106
Arch, Robert, 98
Argonne forest, 143
Arlington National Cemetery, 62, 111
Armed Service Editions (ASEs), 112
Army Air Corps, 17, 32, 37, 40, 182
Army Transport Service, 122
Arnold, Bruce, 187
Arnold, Hap, 187
Arrowsmith, John, 167
Arundel, 123
Asbury Park, 59
Ashkenazi American Jews, Ashkenazi Jews, 5, 132
Aspen, Colorado, 62
Aspen Valley Hospital Heliport, 68, 192
Assam Jungle, 167
Assam Valley, 62
Atlas Mountains, 114
Atlit, 79
Attweilnau, Germany, 20
Australia, 23, 63, 123, 131, 171, 183
Austria, 5, 7, 18, 77–80, 101–102, 126–127, 141, 185, 198n24
Avenger Field, 21, 34, 36, 39, 55, 59, 201n9
B’nai B’rith, 152
Babi Yar, 59
Bad Kreuznach, 171
Bader, George, 176
Bairoko Harbor, 124
Banzai Massacre, 129
Bar Kokhba, 81
Barney Ross’s Marine Company, 116
Barrackpore, 135
Bartfield, Frederick, 165
basic training, 4, 7, 17–21, 25–26, 63, 65, 86, 164, 172, 176
Bass, Leon, 79
Bataan campaign, 138, 143, 150
Bataan Death March, 138, 150, 154
Battle of Munda Point, 120, 123, 190
Battle of Sidi Barrani, 11
Battle of the Bulge, 27, 92, 176, 184–185, 208n33, 211n75
Battlefield, 7, 19–20, 22, 26, 41, 52, 82, 116, 168, 171, 195
Baumel, Bernice, 27
Baumgarten, Herold, 39–40
Belarus, 173
Belgian-German border, 173
Bendersky, Beryl Lieff, 3
Bene Israel, 131–132
Benghazi, 11
Benjamin, Hebe Solomon, 135
Berenbaum, Michael, 61
Bernstein, Philip S., 49, 117, 123, 185
Bible, 40, 118, 141, 145, 212n87
Black Panthers of the 761st Tank Battalion, 79
Black unit, 98
Blue Eagle, 141
Blum, Della, 52
Bombing, 37, 75, 136, 151, 154, 161, 164, 167, 175, 182, 184, 192
Book of Jonah, 81
Book of Life, 117, 122, 126, 158
Boston, Massachusetts, 36, 140
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, 115, 122
Bowman Field, 63
Brahmaputra River, 62
Breitman, Richard, 89
Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, 147
Breuer, Alexander, 7
British Empire, 9, 22, 29, 67, 225n8
British Mandate in Palestine, 11, 29, 72, 225n8, 226n19
British military, British soldiers, 31, 63, 89, 214n29, 225n8
British Jewish soldiers, 11
Brokaw, Tom, 211n87
Bronx, 20, 35, 40, 45, 80, 101, 125, 137, 166
Bronze Star, 75, 79, 119–120, 140, 151, 181
Brooklyn, 17, 71, 90, 92, 98, 101, 109, 117, 121, 164, 167, 172, 190
Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, 182
Brooks, Mel, 92
Brotherhood, 113, 124, 127–128, 146, 158, 164, 177, 179–180, 192–194
Buchwald, Art, 2, 17–18, 72, 81
Bureau of War Records, 28
Bush, George W., 170
Cabanatuan POW camp, 139–147, 152, 158, 191
Calcutta, 7, 13, 115, 130–135, 191
Camp Custer, 35
Camp LeJeune, 65
Camp Pickett, 20
Camps (Nazi camps)
Concentration camps, 7, 26, 31, 41, 78, 92, 103, 107, 171, 182, 191, 200n12, 208n34
Berga Wöbbelin, 19
Dachau, 45–46, 75, 78–79, 184, 208n33
Gunskirchen, 79
extermination camps, 75, 79, 125, 184, 188
Camus, Albert, 109
Canada, 76
Caplan, Aben, 158
Carnegie, Andrew, 93
Casablanca, 8, 14, 96, 101–103, 111–112, 174, 188, 215n49
Catholics, 32, 47, 100, 160, 179
Catholic faith, 50
Cedarbaum, David I., 136, 224n70
Central European campaigns, 19
Ceylon, 101
Jewish, 8, 26, 33, 43–44, 46, 49, 73, 80, 87, 111, 117, 123, 125, 131, 136, 142, 145, 179, 188
Cheney Streeter, Ruth, 65
Cherry Point, 66
Chicago, Illinois, 66
China-Burma-India theater, China-Burma theater, 1, 7, 37, 131
CBI (China-India-Burma) Theater Headquarters, 131
Chinese, 161, 167, 200n27, 215n9
Christians, 13, 31, 86, 112, 174–175, 223n50
Christian chaplains, 73, 82, 87–88, 112, 117, 142, 150–151, 178–179, 190
Christian hostility, 72
Christian icon, 88
Churchill, Winston, 95
Civil Affairs Division, 77
Civil Aviation Authority, 60
Clark Field, 31
Cochran, Jacqueline, 24–25, 51, 53, 56, 58–60
Cohen, Beatrice Abrams, 23–24
Cohen, Ray E, 23
Cohen, Schiller, 98
Collier’s magazine, 29–30
Cologne, Germany, 87
Columbia University, 80
Committee Against Anti-Semitism, 74
Committee on Army and Navy Religious Activities (CANRA), 7, 49, 93, 117
Communism, communist, 28, 46, 81, 86, 203n42
Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, 71
Congressional Space Medal of Honor, 208n31
Conservative Judaism, 43–45, 87, 99, 118
Constantine, Algeria, 114
Cooperman, Jessica, 6
Coral Sea, 115
Battle of the Coral Sea, 90–91
Corregidor, 23, 115, 140, 148–149, 156–157
Battle of Corregidor, 152
Cronan, Selma Kantor, 4, 16, 24–25, 27, 34–36, 51, 59, 62, 67, 187
Cronan, Walter, 25
Cuba, 40
Cuthriel, Warren, 178
Cyrulnik, Boris, 156
Czechoslovakia, 146
Darlan, Jean-François, 95, 97, 108–109, 212n1
Davao prison camp, 139
Day of Atonement see Yom Kippur
D-Day, 19, 23, 26, 40, 49, 77, 92, 112–113, 170, 175, 178, 185, 188
De Gaulle, Charles, 29
Declaration of Independence, 166
Dental Corps, 170
Department of Veterans Affairs, 181
Diner, Hasia, 3
Dinnerstein, Leonard, 42, 69, 86
Discrimination, discriminatory, 5–6, 26, 29, 64, 48, 78, 82, 89, 108, 163, 179, 184, 186–187, 192, 221n5, 226n20
Distinguished Flying Cross, 90–91, 167, 209n57, 225n79
Distinguished Service Cross, 90, 203n45, 211n77
Dog tags, 7, 27, 34, 38–43, 47, 63, 92, 110, 184–186, 205n30
Domestic flying missions, 25
DP camps see Jewish displaced persons
Duffy, John E., 150–152
Dutch East Indies, 157
Eckman (Hewlett), Magdalena, 152–154
Ecumenism, 124
Einsatzgruppen, 59
Einstein, Albert, 86
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 9, 45, 67, 75, 78, 95–97, 108, 125, 131, 186, 211n17
Eisenstein, Moris, 78–79
Eisner, Gerald, 22
Eisner Jr., Lester, 21
Eisner, Jacques Rodney, 21
Ellison, Ralph, 32
Elmore Airstrip, 64
Emory University, 140, 147, 192
Emotions, empathy, 3, 8, 27, 57, 79, 82, 105, 113–114, 150–151, 155, 157–164, 167–169, 172, 176, 180–181, 187, 192, 208n34, 222n18
England, 14, 26, 62, 64, 111, 175, 225n10
Epstein, Hyman, 20
Europe, 1, 9–10, 12, 14, 18, 22, 27–28, 30–31, 42, 59, 78, 83, 90, 100–102, 113, 124–125, 127, 134, 143, 146, 174, 176, 184–185, 188, 194, 211n75, 223n50, 225n10
European-African-Middle Eastern Theater Campaign Ribbon, 27
European Jews, 10, 22, 75–76, 79, 86, 89, 143, 184, 191
European theater, 4, 9, 39, 52, 63, 92, 125, 159, 168, 170, 203n45
Evacuation by air, 63
Ezra, David, 131–132
FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, 57
Falk Haydu, Bernice (Bee), 4, 24–25, 27, 39, 51–52, 54–58, 62, 67–68, 187
Fascists, Fascism, 78, 109, 183
Fellowship, 111, 164–165, 167, 172, 174, 176–177, 181, 224n70
Fenichel, Benjamin, xi, 117–121, 190
Ferndale, 98
Ferrying Division, 61
Field Artillery, 22, 123, 184, 190
Fifth Army Division, 178
Fifth Marine Division Cemetery, 82 ת
First Infantry Division, 113, 175
First World War see World War I
Flag (American), 23, 128, 145, 177–178, 224n63
Flight test, 55
Florida, 24
Flying angels, 66
Foreign Legion, The, 11
Forrestal, James, 151
Fort Riley, 43
Fox, George L., 179
France, 5, 8–9, 11, 18, 22, 27, 29, 45, 53, 59, 75, 78, 82–83, 92, 97, 105–108, 111, 127, 159, 170, 185, 198n18, 205n34, 210n58, 212n1
Free French military, Free French Forces, 10–11, 29
French Ecole Polytechnique, 107
French empire, 95
French fascists, 109
French Jewish soldiers, 106
French Jews, 4, 10–11, 13, 29, 97, 106, 112
French resistance, French underground, 95, 97
French settlers, 108
French Vichy forces, 98
Frank, Leo, 72
Frankfurt-am-Main, 83
Frankfurter, Felix, 86
Franklin, Benjamin, 93
French Croix de Guerre, 98
French Riviera, 75
Friedlander, Sidney, 21
Friedman, Harry L., 180
Friedwald, Herbert, 98
Geller, Victor B., 43
General Hospital Number 1 on Bataan, 140
Geneva Convention, 20, 169, 218n10
Georgia, United States, x, 72, 146, 191
Germany, 2, 5, 8–9, 12–13, 18–19, 22, 24, 26, 31, 45, 50, 56, 75, 77–78, 80, 83, 87, 89, 95, 102, 105, 113, 125, 127–128, 164–165, 171, 173, 185, 197n10, 203n39n, 207n18, 212n87
German commandos, 87
German language, 7
German prisoners, 83, 185, 188
German refugee, 146
German-Jewish refugees, 18, 126, 163, 210n62
Gittelsohn, Roland, 81–82, 178
Glasgow, 100
Goebels, Joseph, 193
Gold, Anita Claire “Goldie”, 171
Goldberg, Jack, 142
Goldberg, Joshua Louis, 136
Goldman, Belle, 137, 172–173, 189
Goldstein, Nathan, 90
Goode, Alexander, 179–180, 224n69
Goodman, Philip, 122–123
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 10
Gordon, Sadie, 146–147, 149, 152
Gorobetz, Milton, 98
Gottlieb, Yetta, 26
Great Britain see British Empire
Great Neck, Long Island, New York, 21, 60
Greenberg, Hank, 35–38, 167–168
Greenfield, Murray S., 207n24, 209n40
Grieder, Charlie, 53
Grobman, Alex, 198n24
Guadalcanal, 90, 115–123, 161, 178, 190
Battle of Guadalcanal, 21, 125, 169
Guam, 115, 122, 135–136, 147, 152, 190, 216n22, 220n43
Gunso, Watanabi, 156
Haas Pfister, Elizabeth (Betty), 4, 21, 51, 59–62, 67–68, 187, 191
Haas, Merle Simon, 60
Haas, Robert, 60
Habonim, 134
Hadassah, 75
Hakafot, 132
Hamilton Hayes, Ira, 178
Hascall Cole, Jean, 39, 56, 59, 61
Hashomer Hatsair, 134
Hawaii, 70, 77, 81, 90, 115, 117, 122, 153, 160–161, 192
Hebrew, 7–8, 34, 38–44, 75–77, 102–103, 110, 116, 124–125, 129, 132, 143, 169, 179, 182, 202n14, 205n30
Henry, Bernard, 50
Heroism, 12, 30, 32, 49, 79, 91–93, 98, 140, 168, 170, 199n30
Hertzberg, Arthur, 47
Hessed, 171
Hessenberger, Ben, 146
Hewlett, Madeline, 154
Hewlett, Thomas H, 153
High-ranking Officers, 76, 84–86, 88, 125, 185
Hindustani, 133
Hirshfield, Robert, 167
Hitler, Adolf, 6–7, 12, 16–24, 29, 41, 45, 79, 92, 101, 126, 170, 184, 191
Hoboken, New Jersey, 43
Hobson, Laura Z., 6
Holocaust deniers, 28
Holocaust survivors, 8, 11, 75, 77, 85, 89, 157, 181–182, 191, 198n24, 208n31, 222n34
Honolulu, 161
Honshu, 70
Houghteling, James, 89
Humiliation, 23, 38, 47, 69, 76, 149, 185
Huston, John, 180
Identity, 10, 19, 24, 33, 35, 37, 42, 47, 54, 60–61, 68, 82–84, 110, 132, 142, 144–145, 154, 186
American Jewish Identity, ix, 12, 128, 135
Jewish Identity, 5–7, 11–12, 16–17, 22, 29, 34–35, 41, 59, 73, 80–82, 86, 92, 100, 106, 116, 120, 122, 128, 133–134, 139–140, 142, 145, 163, 185–186, 203n45, 204n15, 218n22
Imperial Japanese Army, Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service see Japanese military
India, 13, 33, 44, 62, 72, 101, 114, 130–132, 167, 183, 189, 191
Indian Jews, Jews of India, Indian Jewish community, 3, 9, 130–135, 191
Indian Ocean, 131
Intelligence Services (Intelligence), 7, 11, 13, 18–19, 41, 70, 95, 163, 185, 195n18, 221n9
Intelligence Service Language program, 160, 163
Iran, 38
Iraq, 38
Israel, 69, 74, 77–78, 80, 88, 91–92, 135, 207n24, 208n31, 212n91, 217n20, 217n49, 222n34
Israeli Defense Forces, 31, 208n31
Italy, 11, 18, 24, 29, 73, 75, 77, 104–105, 113, 165
Iwo Jima, 69–71, 82, 129, 136, 177–178
Battle of Iwo Jima, 177–178, 180
Jacobs, John M., 150
Jacobson, Eddie, 85
Jamaica, 98
Janoski, Phil, 70
Japan, Japanese, Japanese Empire, xi, 5, 13, 18, 21, 23–24, 29, 37, 39, 51, 64, 69–71, 77–78, 88, 116, 125–128, 130, 135–163, 167, 169–173, 176, 180–183, 189, 191–193, 211n74, 219n27, 220n44, 221n5
Japanese ideology, 141
Japanese immigrants, 160
Japanese occupation, 127
Japanese prison camps, 141, 144, 157
Japanese survivors, 191
Japanese war criminals, 154–156
Japanese Americans, Nisei, 13, 159–163, 192
Japanese American Veterans Association (JAVA), 162, 192
Japanese American women, 163
Nisei veterans, 192
Japanese forces, Japanese imperial forces, Japanese military, 24, 125, 128–129, 138, 140–141, 149, 163, 219n27
Japanese artillery, 171
Japanese battleship, 90
Japanese Imperial Air Force, 25, 181
Japanese Navy, 90
Japanese troops, 20, 70, 118, 122, 190
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, 137
Jew-hatred, Jew-haters see Antisemitism
Jewish American prisoners, 144
Jewish communities (overseas), 1, 5, 113, 127, 136, 188, 215n46
Jewishness, 1, 10, 13, 16, 31, 34, 45, 47–48, 70, 80–82, 101, 105, 110, 120, 123–124, 126, 130, 133, 136, 144–145, 158, 168, 183–184, 187–189, 203n45, 210n60
Jewish dietary laws, 54
Jewish Displaced Persons, 76–80, 191, 203n42, 209n41, 217n46
Jewish educational institution, Yeshiva, 45
Jewish faith, 12, 50, 85, 92–93, 180
Jewish festivals, 13, 99, 112, 131, 175
Jewish holidays, 8
Jewish invisibility, 43
Jewish laymen, 142
Jewish observance, 2, 104, 129–130, 190
Jewish peoplehood, 2, 5, 73, 100, 129–130, 133
Jewish refugees, 7, 18, 79, 89, 100, 126, 131, 141, 143, 163, 210n62, 213n14, 220n44
Jewish solidarity, 135–136, 158, 191, 222n34
Jewish spirituality, 136
Jewish values, 3, 24, 169, 171, 177, 187, 202n36
public expression of Jewishness, 139, 142
Jewish officers, 167, 174, 192, 203n45
Jewish prisoners, 5, 142, 144, 184, 218n10n 223n50
Jewish survivors, 75, 77, 89, 171, 191, 198n24
Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America (JWV), 177, 194, 199n1
Jewish Welfare Board, JWB see National Jewish Welfare Board
Judeo-Christianity, 173
kamikazes, Kamikaze pilots, 18, 75, 152, 162, 182
Kantor Cronan, Selma, 4, 24–25, 34–35, 51, 59, 62, 67, 187
Kan-Tor, Zvi, 212n91
Karachi, India, 131–132
Karachi Bene Israel, 131–132
Karsevar, Ruth, 26–171
Katz, Harold, 20
Kaufman, Charles, 180 ת
Kaufman, Isidore, 9, 116, 136, 169, 180
Kaufman. Paul, 89
Kaunitz, Fred, 141
Kaunitz, Hanna, 141
Kepei Tai, 139
Kern, Marvin, 70
Kessel, Bernard J., 98
Kiddush, 127
Koch, Bebe, 197n10
Kohs Samuel C., 84
Kovno, 148
Kraut, Alan, 89
Krell, Lilian, 26
Kristallnacht, 128
Kyuchu, 151
Lahey, Edwin, 84
Lancry, Huguette, 107
land of Israel (Eretz Israel), 74, 80, 91
Latrun, 88
Lebanon, 11
LeBlanc, O.K., 116
Lefkowitz, Sidney, 50
Lehman de Vadetsky, Hilda, Jane, 186
Lehman, Herbert R., 187
Le Kef, Tunisia, 104–105
LeMay, Curtis, 136
Lerner, Maximilian, 18
Lev, Arieh, 117
Levin, Meyer (Mike), 90–91, 193
Levine, Mendel Leib, 80
Levy, Asher, 28
Lewin, Sy, 19
Leyte, Philiipines, 23, 64, 115
Lieb, Joseph H., 117
Litvyak, Lidiya Vladimirovna, 10
London, England, 23, 29, 67, 100
Love, Nancy, 58
Lowitz, Stanley, 98
Luzon, Philippines, 115, 143, 150–151, 153
Northern Luzon Campaign, 150
Macarov, David, 7, 72, 132–135, 191
MacArthur, Douglas, 23, 88–89, 125, 172
Machal, 76–78
Magdovitz, Ben, 127–128
Mahoney, John, 179
Mandatory Palestine see British mandate
Manhattan, 76
Manila, 23, 64, 89–90, 115, 125–129, 138–139, 141, 150, 152–153, 183
Manila American cemetery, 64, 137
Manila Jewish community, 13, 127–128, 183
Manila synagogue, 88, 128, 216n29
resistance movement in Manila, 172
Manliness see masculinity
Marcus, David Daniel, 76–77, 91, 93, 168, 188, 208n27
Margolis, Abram, 10
Margolis, Laura, 220n44
Mariana Islands, 115, 136, 157, 159, 161, 169, 192
Marines, Marine Corps, 2–3, 17–18, 23, 32, 64–66, 70, 82, 115–117, 121, 129, 159, 161, 169, 178–179, 182, 186, 190
Marine Corps Air Station, 66
Marine Corps Women’s Reserve, 65
Marmot, Woolf, 11
Marshall, George C., 49, 130–131, 161
Martins Creek, 53
masculinity, 17, 37–38, 76, 81, 83, 92, 140, 145, 168, 180, 218n22
Mast, Charles, 95
McCullough, David, 162
Mechanics, 12, 25, 56, 61, 64–66, 98, 186–187
Medals, 9, 98, 198n25, 203n45, 205n30
Medical Corps, 23, 140, 142, 145, 157–158, 169, 171
Mediterranean Sea, 153
Melasky, Harris, 88–89, 211n77
Memler, Beatrice H., 64
Memler, Julius, 64
Merseburg, Germany, 89
Midway, Midway Island, 115, 122, 157
Military cemeteries, 43, 93, 111, 185, 202n6, 203n49
Military Intelligence Specialist Unit, 19
Military Intelligence Training Center, 18
Military training, 16
Miller, Milton, 167
Milwaukee, 172
Mindanao Island, Phillipines, 64
Minnesota, 160
Mitsushima prisoner camp, 155–156
Montclair, New Jersey, 52–53
Moore, Deborah Dash, 3, 125, 134, 168
Moreell, Ben, 167–168
Morgenthau Robert M., 181
Morgenthau, Henry, 85, 178, 181
Mormon, 55
Morocco, ix, 8, 13–14, 63, 95, 102, 111–112, 174
Moroccan Jews, 108
Mosely, Evans T., 123
Moskin, Alan, 79
Moskowitz, Yetta, 4, 26, 51, 63–65
Mount Suribachi, 177–178
Munda, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 120, 123–126, 166–167, 190, 194, 223n48
Murdoch, John, 116
Museum of Jewish Heritage, 58–59, 181, 187
Museum of the Jewish Soldier, 88
Nabeul, 104
Nadel, Dan, 92
Nakamura, Bob, 160
National Broadcasting Company, 50
National Jewish Welfare Board, 7, 9, 28, 48–49, 84, 91, 93, 98–99, 103, 111, 117, 121, 123, 158, 166–167, 190, 207n17
National Ladies Auxiliary of the Jewish War Veterans, 24
National Museum of American Jewish History, 70
National Museum of American Jewish Military History, 36, 65, 124, 126, 199n1
Native Americans, 163
Navy, 3, 7, 17, 21–22, 24, 33, 48–49, 60, 70, 84, 86, 93, 103, 117, 125, 137–138, 147–149, 151–152, 161, 167, 182, 194
Navy Aviation Machinist Mate, 21
Nazism, Nazis, 5, 7, 12, 19, 28–29, 31, 39, 41–42, 48, 59, 83, 87, 101–102, 124, 130, 138, 173–174, 183–185, 200n12
Nazi annihilation, 10
Nazi brutality, 78
Nazi extermination, Nazi genocide, 31, 75–76, 203n42
Nazi persecution, 19, 102, 131, 143, 197n10, 220n44
Third Reich, 113
Nebraska, 20
New Guinea, 20, 23 64, 90, 115, 137, 171–173, 189
New Order, 78
New York, 21–22, 25–26, 29, 37, 40, 44, 46, 59, 60, 64, 75, 80, 84, 88, 90, 98, 113, 115, 121, 131, 142–143, 159, 167, 175, 177, 180–181, 187, 193–194
New York City College, 159
New York Times, 43
Nightingale, Florence, 67
Nimitz, Chester, 147
Nisei see Japanese Americans
Nishigaki-San, 155
Nishino-San, 155
Normandy invasion see D-Day
North Africa, ix, 1, 3, 8, 12–13, 22, 43, 63, 73, 75, 95–100, 102–103, 105, 108–109, 111–113, 134, 175, 185, 188–189, 213n27, 214n36, 215n51, 215n53
French North Africa, 3–4, 8–9, 28, 94–96, 103, 107, 109, 183, 187, 188
invasion of North Africa, 63, 108
North African campaign, 8, 11, 125, 176, 197n2
North African Jews, Jews of North Africa, 5, 100–101, 104, 106, 110, 112, 188, 213n27
Nussbaum, Chaim, 145
O’Donnel, Emet, 90
O’Donnell, 141–142
O’Neill, William L, 66
Oak Leaf for gallantry, 90–91
Obermayer, Herman J., 20
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (RG38), 150
Ohrdruf, Germany, 78
Oka, Don, 162
Okinawa, Japan, 13, 18, 37, 81, 115, 129–130, 161–162, 176, 182, 192
Battle of Okinawa, 130
Olongapo, 150–152
Omaha, Omaha Beach, 20, 40, 92
Omori Punishment Camp, 139–140, 154, 156
Operation Barbarossa, 28
Operation Torch (see Torch), ix, 5, 8, 13, 29, 63, 67, 95–97, 100, 186, 212n1–2
Oran, 5, 8, 14, 96–98, 100–101, 106–110, 113–114, 188, 215n52
Jews in Oran, 106–107
Oran harbor (battle, port disaster), 100
Grand Synagogue, 106
American Military Cemetery in Oran, 111
Orthodox Jews, Orthodox, 34–35, 43–46, 80, 86–87, 99, 111, 124, 128, 169, 173, 176, 190, 211n74
Oryoku Maru, 150–152
Pacific, 2, 5, 7–9, 13, 18, 21, 52, 70, 90, 114–117, 136–138, 145, 147, 159, 167, 169, 172, 175, 177, 184, 189–191
Pacific Islands, 8–9, 80, 117, 121, 150, 163, 166, 175, 189
South Pacific, 1, 4, 26, 117, 124, 172
southern Pacific islands, 137
western Pacific, 70, 128, 135, 183
Pacific theater, Pacific war, 4, 13, 39, 52, 63, 75, 86, 119, 123, 130, 135, 160–161, 171, 183, 189
Pacifists, 81
Palestine, 11, 29, 46, 65, 69, 72, 74–76, 79–80, 89, 130, 134, 209n40, 216n35, 217n46, 222n34
Paper, Maurice, 75
Patriotism, xi, 9–10, 12, 16–17, 21–24, 28–29, 32, 37, 65–67, 77, 91, 98, 120–121, 135, 149, 172, 177, 186, 193
Patton, George S., 76, 85, 92, 149–150
Pearl Harbor, 7, 16, 21, 23–25, 37, 51, 70, 77–78, 90, 92, 115, 118, 128, 131, 138, 142, 156, 160–161, 171, 176, 183, 192–193
Persian Gulf Command, 38
Pétain, Marshall Philippe, 108, 113
Pfister, Arthur O., 62
Philippine Military Prison camp, 149
Philippines, 1, 12–13, 22–23, 31, 64, 88–89, 125–128, 138–141, 143, 149, 152–153, 158, 161, 173, 183, 190, 219n25
Pine Grove, 152
Pitkin County Air Rescue Group, 62
Plane crash, 9, 43, 111, 185, 189, 205n34
Poland, 22, 46, 71, 79, 104, 113, 130, 145, 170, 175
Polish Jews, 10
Polish immigrant, 29
Poling, Clark V., 179
Portugal, 83
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) see psychiatric casualties
Potsdam, 77
Powder Puff Derbies, 4
Prayer book, 48, 98–99, 103, 111, 123, 137, 144–145, 158, 166, 174, 190, 215n46
Prayer shawl see Tallith
Prayer, 11, 40, 44, 46, 56, 88, 98–100, 102, 105, 110, 116, 118, 121, 123, 132, 143–145, 158, 166, 171, 174, 189–191, 202n14, 202n36
Kaddish, 226n22
Prejudice, 1, 6, 12–13, 20, 29–30, 35, 38–39, 47, 52, 58, 66–68, 70, 73, 76, 78, 81–85, 93–94, 106, 132–133, 163, 179, 181–182, 186–188, 191, 210n71
Preston, Melvin, 82
Prisoners of war, POW, 34, 56, 125, 140, 149, 150, 152–160, 164, 173, 181–182, 185, 211n75, 219n27, 220n56
Jewish POWs, 5, 13, 154, 173, 218n10
Japanese POW camp, 23, 125, 138–143, 145–146, 191
POW camps, 13, 141, 158, 164, 171, 185
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 86
Psychiatric casualties, 23, 26, 153–154, 157, 180, 182
Pyle, Ernie, 175–176
military rabbis (see Chaplains)
Red Cross, 112, 126, 149, 219n27
Red Sea, 44
Reform rabbi, Reform Judaism, 81, 99, 178–179
Refugees, 5, 7, 12, 18–19, 79, 89, 100–102, 124, 126–127, 131, 141, 143, 146, 163, 185, 208n34, 218n11, 220n43
Reichart, Stuart R, 182
Reischauer, Edwin O, 155
Rejoicing of the Torah see Simhat Torah
Religiosity, 12, 48, 104, 129, 137, 158, 172, 190
Religious identity, 24, 33, 42
Religious observance (practice), 5, 73, 82, 123, 125, 130, 136, 192
Religious services, 46, 48, 73, 93, 100–102, 104, 108, 117, 123, 125, 127, 132, 136, 158, 172–175, 188–191, 224n70
Friday evening services, 104
Hanukkah, Hanukkah service, 91, 111
Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, Rosh Hashanah service, 9, 13, 47, 82, 116, 118, 121–124, 135, 190, 194
New Year of the Trees, Tu B’Shevat, 13, 129–130, 192
Passover (Pesach), 9, 45, 87–88, 102,–103, 105–106, 110, 122, 124–126, 129–130, 136–137, 174, 183, 188, 194, 203n39, 207n17, 211n74, 211n76, 213n24
Haggada, 88, 103, 122, 125, 130, 203n39
Haroset, 103
Simhat Torah, Rejoicing of the Torah, 131
Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement, 33, 35, 47, 80–81, 100, 118, 136–137, 142–146, 158, 173, 189–191
Rheims, Maurice, 11
Rhine River, Rhine, 87
Rhode Island, 45
Ribalow, Harold, 43–44, 101–102, 174, 223n53
Richmond, Virginia, 37
Richmond, Harry R., 117
River Kwai, 145
Rivkin, Mimi, 81
Roberts, Burton, 72
Rockwell, Norman, 29
Rommel’s Afrika Korps, 185
Roosevelt administration, 86, 95
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 163, 204n54, 222n18
Roosevelt, Franklin D., FDR, 3, 89, 95, 135, 137, 161, 163, 217n54
Rose, Maurice (Major General), 185–186, 203n45
Rosen, Isadore, 84
Rosenthal, Joe, 177–178
Rosie the Riveter, 23
Rosofsky, Dov-Ber David, 115, see Ross Barney
Ross, Barney, 115–116, 169, 188, 192
Rubin, Morris, 46
Ruttenberg, James, 166
Sabbath, Sabbath meals, Sabbat services, 8, 13, 43–45, 47, 99, 102, 110, 112, 127, 191
Sachs, Moshe, 13, 129–130, 182, 192, 216n35
Salomon, Ben L., 169–170, 223n39
San Diego Naval Hospital, 27
Santa Monica, 23
Santo Tomas internment camp, 152–153
Saperstein, Mark, 82
Scharf, Jack, 45
Schlamberg, Philip, 71
Schleifer, Louis, 91
Secretary of War, 25, 86, 221n13
Sellz, Norman, 157
Sephardic, ix, 9, 111–112, 132
Sephardic traditions, 5
Shanghai, China, 115, 127, 220n44
Shapiro, Archie, 166
Shaw, Irwin, 6
Sheehy, Ethel, 53
Shofar, 117–118, 120, 122–123, 146, 190
Shpall, Jerry, 88
Shulman, Paul, 75–76, 91, 207n24
Siegel, Norman, 117
Silver Star, 20, 79, 90–91, 98, 122, 169, 190, 215n53
Silverman, Marty, 47
Singer, Jay, 88
Smith, Gerald L.K., 43
Solidarity, 2, 61, 135–136, 158, 164, 168, 179, 191, 213n27, 222n34
Solomon Islands, xi, 115, 117, 119, 121–123
Soviet Union, USSR, 9, 22, 28, 59
Hero of the Soviet Union, 10
Russian Army, Red Army, 10, 63, 199n28
Russian Jews, Soviet Jews, 10
SPARS, 3
Stars and Stripes, 58, 159, 170
Stars of David, 43, 49, 185, 202n31
Stimson, Henry Lewis, 86, 162, 221n13
Stine, Betty, 56–57
Stock, Ernest, 82–85, 188, 210n58–60
Stone, Earl, 8
Strauss, H. Cerf, 117
Strobing, Irving, 21
Sugamo Prison, 156
Sugarman, Martin, 5
Survival training, 64
Sweetwater, Texas, 25, 34, 36, 51, 53, 56, 58, 60
Sydney, Australia, 115, 123, 183
Synagogue, 8, 24, 38, 48, 88, 99–100, 103, 105–106, 108, 118, 121, 124, 128, 131–132, 144–145, 183, 189
Szold, Henrietta, 75
Szyk, Arthur, xi, 13, 29–31, 193–194
Tallith, praying shawl, 118, 121, 123, 143, 190, 226n19
Tanuan Airfield, 64
Tapp, Jim, 71
Taylor, Maxwell, 77
Tel Aviv, 80
Texas, 21, 25, 34, 36, 51, 53, 57–58, 137
The Ninety-Nines, 62
The Quan, 157
Tikkun olam, Repairing the world, 27, 130, 169, 192
Tinian, Mariana islands
Tomases, Ralph, 42, 173–174, 184–185
Torah, readings, 131
Torah scrolls, Torah ark, 132, 224n70
Torch (code name), see Operation Torch
Tregaskis, Richard, 122
Truman, Harry, 71, 77, 85, 161, 177, 222n18
Trump, Donald, 150
Tu B’Shevat see New Year of Trees
Tunisia, 5, 8, 13, 96, 98, 102–105, 108, 110, 112, 213n24, 214n29
Tunisian campaign, 113, 175–176
Tuskegee Airmen, 32, 70, 165–166
Twelfth Air Force Service Command, 111
US Army, See also specific military units, 6–7, 37, 161, 179
US Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), 4, 70, 138–139
Air Force Reserve, 182
Air Force School of Air Evacuation, 26, 63
US Army Signal Corps, 78
US Army Special Services School, 37
US Coast Guard, 3
US Navy’s Bureau of Yards and Docks, 167
USS. Hunt, 75
U-2 submarine, 179
Underground (France), 59
United Nations, 73–74
United Service Organizations, 193
United States Military Academy, 14, 77, 96, 115
United States Naval Academy, 75
United States Naval Reserve, 21, 80
US Nixon’s Women’s Advisory Committee on Aviation, 62
University of Pennsylvania, 104
University of South California, 169
Urban, Robert, 54
USO-Perez center of Jewish military activities, 128
USS Dorchester, 180
USS Harry F. Bauer, 181
USS Lansdale, 181
USSR see Soviet Union
Veteran Administration/V.A, 153
Vichy legislation, Vichy laws, ix, 97
Vichy Regime, Vichy Government, Vichy France, Vichy authorities, 8, 29, 95–98, 102, 107–109, 113, 212n1, 216n36
Vienna, Austria, 14, 18, 101, 143
Virginia, 37
Visibility of Jews, 31–37, 43–44, 49–50, 178
Volunteers, 70, 75–76, 112, 151, 153
WACs (Women’s Army Corps), ix, 3, 12, 22, 63, 67, 126, 163, 172, 186
Wagner-Rogers Bill, 89
Wainwright, Jonathan M, 150
War of Independence in 1948, 72, 77–78, 208n31, 212n89
Warsaw ghetto, 19
Washington, John P., 179
Waters, Edward, 50
WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), 3, 22, 186, 197n10
Weinstein, Alfred Abraham, 138–146, 154–158, 173, 181–182, 191
Werfel, Louis (Eliezer), 9, 110–111, 215n46
West Point, 76–77, 85–86, 88, 93, 147, 168
West Point Cemetery, West Point Military cemetery, 77, 93, 208n31
Western Desert, The, 11
Westover Field, 40
Williams Field, 61
Williamsburg, 92
Wolke, Marshall, 130–132
Women
wives, 26, 72, 89, 131, 134, 141, 156, 158, 165, 174, 176, 180–181, 201n4, 212n89, 216n35, 219n23, 220n59
nurses, Army Nurse Corps, 3–4, 12, 22, 25–27, 34, 50–52, 62–67, 126, 152–154, 170–171, 182, 186, 191–192
flight nurses, 12, 51, 62–66, 186
Navy Nurse Corps, 22
Servicewomen, 1, 4, 6, 16, 22, 27, 35, 66–67, 128, 171–172, 177, 186–187, 189
Jewish servicewomen, 3–4, 9, 12–13, 16, 27–28, 32, 35, 50, 64, 74–75, 93, 118, 126, 130, 136–137, 183, 186, 191
sexist attitudes, 187
WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots), 4, 12, 16, 21–25, 33, 36, 39, 51–62, 66–68, 163, 186–187, 200n27, 204n22, 205n30
WAVES, Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, 3, 22, 186, 197n10
winged angels, 62–63
women’s contributions, 67, 186
women pilots, Jewish women pilots, Jewish woman mechanic, 4, 12, 24–25, 27–28, 51–52, 56–67, 186–187, 204n54
Women’s Transcontinental Air Races, 4, 59
World Jewish Congress (WJC), 113
World War I, First World War, 6, 11, 21–22, 29, 91, 97, 147, 157, 165, 167, 180, 186, 205n34, 210n71
Wyman, David, 86
Yale University, 60
Yellin, Jerry (Jerome), 69–71, 129, 180–182, 188, 192, 225n73
Yellin, Larry, 86–89, 125, 211n74, 212n93
Yiddish, 23, 43, 46, 75, 77, 80, 102, 132–133, 135, 174
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 3, 81, 84, 91, 100–101, 104, 110, 127, 132
Yokohama, Japan, 182
Zagreb, 166
Zalkin, Norman, 165
Zamaloff (Dworkin), Jeanne, 22–23, 172
Zamperini, Louis, 157
Zerah, Denise, 214n29
Zionist, Zionism, Zionists, 46, 74–76, 80–81, 85–86, 101, 134, 191
Zionist aspirations, 69, 74, 80
Zionist views, Zionist vision, 7, 130
Labor Zionism, 134
Zirnheld, André, 10–11
Zoot suits, 54
Specific Military Units
1st Infantry Division, 113, 175
101st Airborne Division, 77
102nd Infantry Regiment, 170
105th Infantry Regiment, 169–170
106th Infantry Division, 184, 218n10
116th Infantry Regiment, 40
136th Evacuation Hospital, 171
20th Bomber Command, 37
27th Infantry Division, 77–78, 169, 170
28th Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division, 46
32nd Infantry Division, 10
283rd Field Artillery Battalion, 184
297th General Hospital Unit, 26
332nd Fighter Group, 165
388th Bomb group, 89
42nd “Rainbow” Infantry Division, 45, 78
45th Field Hospital, 170
526th Fighter Bomber Squadron, 109
3rd Air Commando group, 31
560th Bomb Squadron, 89
58th Bomber Wing, 167
78th Fighter Squadron, 70
804th MAES squadron, 63–64
82nd Airborne Division, 19, 185
86th Infantry Division, 88
89th Field Artillery Battalion, 123, 190
8th Air Force, 209, n.57
9th Infantry Division, 111
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