A Winding Road to the Land of Enchantment
- ISBN-10
- 0982870914
- ISBN-13
- 9780982870914
- Category
- Clark County (Idaho)
- Pages
- 270
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-07-28
- Publisher
- Lulu.com
- Author
- Gerald W. Thomas
Description
In this book, Thomas recounts growing up on a ranch in Idaho during the Great Depression, playing baseball with Jackie and Mack Robinson, joining the Navy after Pearl Harbor, and serving as a TBM Torpedo Bomber pilot on aircraft carriers in the Atlantic and Pacific.
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