Carol Edgemon Hipperson

Carol Edgemon Hipperson
Carol Edgemon Hipperson is the author of Radioman: An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor and World War II in the Pacific and the award-winning military biography The BellyGunner, which was the first book selected to the Library of Congress’s list of recommended resources for students and teachers participating in the national Veterans History Project. She lives in Spokane, Washington.
Focus On: Historic Battles
Radioman
Radioman: An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor and World War II in the Pacific
By: Carol Edgemon Hipperson | December 7, 2010
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Radioman is the biography of Ray Daves, a noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Navy and an eyewitness to World War II. It is based on the author’s handwritten notes from a series of interviews that began on the eighty-second birthday of the combat veteran and gives a first-person account of the world’s first battles between aircraft carriers. [More...]
Focus On: Command Posts Salutes
USS California
Standing Ovation to Pearl Harbor Survivors
By: Carol Edgemon Hipperson | December 7, 2010
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December 7, 2010, marks the 69th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Those old enough to remember that fateful Sunday morning in 1941 can tell you in great detail exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news. Less than 24 hours later, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said it was “a date which will live in infamy.” He was right. The course of history changed and neither America nor the rest of the world would ever be the same again. [More...]
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