TY - BOOK AU - Bakken,Dawn TI - Fighting Hoosiers: Indiana in Two World Wars SN - 9780253056856 AV - D570.85.I6 F544 2021 U1 - 940.412730922772 PY - 2021/// CY - Bloomington PB - Indiana University Press KW - World War, 1914-1918-Indiana KW - Soldiers-Indiana-Biography KW - World War, 1939-1945-Indiana KW - United States-Armed Forces-Biography KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction / Dawn E. Bakken -- 1. Pride, Patriotism, and the Press: The Evolving True Story of the First American Shot of World War I / Greta A. Fisher and Lauren E. Kuntzman -- 2. On Convoy Duty in World War I: The Diary of Hoosier Guy Connor / Edited by Jeffrey L. Patrick -- 3. A Hoosier Nurse in France: The World War I Diary of MaudeFrances Essig / Alma S. Woolley -- 4. "Oatmeal and Coffee": Memoirs of a Hoosier Soldier in World War I / Kenneth Gearhart Baker, edited and introduced by Robert H. Ferrell, transcription and postscript by Betty Baker Rinker -- 5. Recollections of a World War II Combat Medic / Bernard L. Rice -- 6. A Hoosier Soldier in the British Isles / Lawrence B. McFaddin -- 7. "A Fair Chance To Do My Part of Work": Black Women, War Work, and Rights Claims at the Kingsbury Ordnance Plant / Katherine Turk -- About the Author N2 - -Carefully selected collection of articles from the Indiana Magazine of History, that details ordinary Hoosiers' involvement in the two world wars. Focuses on the personal stories of these brave men and women, and features their diaries, letters and memiors as source material. -Trade crossover that should appeal to general history readers and scholars alike UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6665718 ER -