Stories of a Paratrooper in Occupied Japan: A Clerk and Paratrooper in the 11th Airborne Division in Sendai, Japan in 1946-47 after WW II. - Paperback

by Barry W. Hansen (Editor), Norman R. Hansen (Author)

Norman was born in 1927 in Richmond Beach near Seattle just prior to the Great Depression. After high school, he started Journalism at the University of Washington and in April 1946 he was drafted into the Army and shipped to Occupied Japan.This was a big change for a 19-year old farm boy but he was young, fit, eager to prove himself, and out to learn all he could from the world.His brief Journalism experience gave him surprising opportunities in the Army.This book includes 100 never-before published photographs, scanned documents and historical articles from Norman's personal collection.