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<p><P>Fort Snelling National Cemetery is one of 120 national cemeteries across the country. More than 160,000 brave men and women from the Upper Midwestern states of Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Iowa lie beneath the field of white marble grave markers. While the acres of white stones are a deeply moving memorial to the strength and sacrifices of a nation, they do not reveal the individual stories of courage.&nbsp;<br><br>From the sailors on the USS <i>Ward</i> who fired the first shots at Pearl Harbor to a Japanese-American army medic who served in a devastated Hiroshima, Stephen Chicoine chronicles the untold personal experiences of almost one hundred World War II heroes, from all divisions of the armed services, in every theater. In <i>Our Hallowed Ground</i> we meet Raymond Maxfield from Mankato, Minnesota, who had been given up for dead when he crashed his plane near Bologna, Italy, until, much to everyone&#8217;s surprise, he walked into the headquarters of the 94th Fighter Squadron. James Carter from Minneapolis was part of the 93rd Division, an African-American unit that fought in the South Pacific at a time when most black Americans were not considered

Author

Chicoine, Stephen

Publisher

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816646746

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

5 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14