WWII Memoirs of Sailor and Journalist, Treasures from the Attic, Published by Outskirts Press
Summary
The letters were found in 2003 in the attic of Chuck’s home and after he died in 2008 – at the age of 96 – his son decided to assemble them into a book because of the valuable insights they offered to veterans, history buffs and readers who enjoy a peek into the inner workings of an intelligent man’s heart.The original twelve hundred pages of letters cover everything from Chuck’s Boot Camp and Gunnery School experiences, his initial cross-country train trip – and his first, startling view of the Rocky Mountains – through a ferocious typhoon that caused him true fear for the first time in his life to his ship-board perspective on the battles at Okinawa and Iwo Jima.It seemed to all of us that we had lost a friend, that pilot who we never met.” That camaraderie -- and Chuck Welsh’s ability to express it – provides readers with a view of a sailor’s life in the South Pacific during WWII which is not available in any other literature, formal or personal, about that era.- 515, Parker, Colorado 80134 http://outskirtspress.com 1-888-OP-BOOKS Stuarts Daft, VA, November 29, 2010 --( PR.com )-- Editor Charles Welsh today announced the release of Treasures from the Attic, My Father’s Letters, 1944-1945, from the States and Aboard Ship in the Pacific, published by Outskirts Press.He had been working as a newspaper reporter for the Associated Press – and continued his career with them after the war – and his journalist’s eye and writer’s talent is evident in these excerpts from the nearly five hundred letters he wrote during a nineteen month period in 1944-45.The letters were found in 2003 in the attic of Chuck’s home and after he died in 2008 – at the age of 96 – his son decided to assemble them into a book because of the valuable insights they offered to veterans, history buffs and readers who enjoy a peek into the inner workings of an intelligent man’s heart.The original twelve hundred pages of letters cover everything from Chuck’s Boot Camp and Gunnery School experiences, his initial cross-country train trip – and his first, startling view of the Rocky Mountains – through a ferocious typhoon that caused him true fear for the first time in his life to his ship-board perspective on the battles at Okinawa and Iwo Jima.“Four fighters were attacking a gun placement,” he writes one day in Okinawa.