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02885aam a2200325 i 4500 001 F23EE048081211E991DB78F996128E48 003 SILO 005 20181225010105 007 n 008 180629s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1510730613 020 $a 9781510730618 035 $a (OCoLC)1043469232 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Evans, Clay Bonnyman,. 245 1 $a Bones of my grandfather : $b reclaiming a lost hero of World War II / $c Clay Bonnyman Evans. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Skyhorse Publishing, $c [2018] 300 $a xix, 300 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a In November 1943, Marine 1st Lt. Alexander Bonnyman, Jr. was mortally wounded while leading a successful assault on a critical Japanese fortification on the Pacific atoll of Tarawa, and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor. The brutal, bloody 76-hour battle would ultimately claim the lives of more than 1,100 Marines and 5,000 Japanese forces. But Bonnyman's remains, along with those of hundreds of other Marines, were hastily buried and lost to history following the battle, and it would take an extraordinary effort by a determined group of dedicated civilians to find him. In 2010, having become disillusioned with the U.S. government's half-hearted efforts to recover the "lost Marines of Tarawa," Bonnyman's grandson, Clay Bonnyman Evans, was privileged to join the efforts of History Flight, Inc., a non-governmental organization dedicated to finding and repatriating the remains of lost U.S. service personnel. In Bones of My Grandfather, Evans tells the remarkable story of History Flight's mission to recover hundreds of Marines long lost to history in the sands of Tarawa. Even as the organization begins to unearth the physical past on a remote Pacific island, Evans begins his own quest to unearth the reclaim the true history of his grandfather, a charismatic, complicated hero whose life had been whitewashed, sanitized and diminished over the decades. On May 29, 2015, Evans knelt beside a History Flight archaeologist as she uncovered the long-lost, well-preserved remains of of his grandfather. And more than seventy years after giving his life for his country, a World War II hero finally came home. 541 $d 20180910. 610 1 $a United States $b Marine Corps $x History. 650 $a Tarawa, Battle of, Kiribati, 1943. 650 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Repatriation of war dead $z United States. 650 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Casualties $z Tarawa Atoll. $z Tarawa Atoll. 651 $a Tarawa Atoll (Kiribati) $x History, Military. 941 $a 2 952 $l SKPC094 $d 20190504012302.0 952 $l YSPD232 $d 20181225013218.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F23EE048081211E991DB78F996128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search