Snake's Daughter: The Roads in and Out of War (Singular Lives)

433 Pages·1997·2.24 MB·English

by  Gail Hosking Gilberg

Snake's Daughter : The Roads in and Out of
title:
War Singular Lives
author: Gilberg, Gail Hosking.
publisher: University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin: 0877455864
print isbn13: 9780877455868
ebook isbn13: 9781587290831
language: English
Hosking, Charles,--1924-1967, United
subject States.--Army--Biography, Vietnamese
Conflict, 1961-1975.
publication date: 1997
lcc: U53.H67G55 1997eb
ddc: 355/.0092
Hosking, Charles,--1924-1967, United
subject:
States.--Army--Biography, Vietnamese
Conflict, 1961-1975.
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Snake's Daughter
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SINGULAR LIVES
The Iowa Series in
North American Autobiography
Albert E. Stone, Series Editor
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Snake's Daughter
The Roads in and out of War
Gail Hosking Gilberg
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS IOWA CITY
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gilberg, Gail Hosking, 1950
Snake's daughter: the roads in and out of war / Gail Hosking Gilberg.
p. cm.(Singular lives)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-87745-585-6, ISBN 0-87745-586-4 (pbk.)
1. Hosking, Charles, 19241967. 2. United States. Army
Biography. 3. Vietnamese Conflict. 1961-1975. I. Title.
II. Series.
U53.H67G55 1997
355'.0092-dc21
[b] 96-49229
01 00 99 98 97 C 5 4 3 2 1
01 00 99 98 97 P 5 4 3 2 1
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To the memory of my parents,
CHARLES ERNEST HOSKING, JR.,
and
GLORIA WALTERS.
To my sons,
DAVID and BENJAMIN,
who made the writing of
this book very important.
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Contents
Foreword xiii
by Albert E. Stone
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
Dreams 13
Luella 13
1925 17
Chas Hosking Jr., Brooklyn, New York 17
The Generations 19
Sailor on a Park Bench, Date Unknown 23
A Soldier's Album 24
On Leave with George Martino from Newark, New Jersey 26
Southern France, 1944 26
Mother's Day, 1944 29
Norman, 1945 30
Physical Training 31
June 30, 1948, Textile Hall, Columbus, Georgia 33
Love and Marriage 33
Company F, 503rd AIR, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, 1951 37
Into Focus 38
Roots and Vines 39
June 2, 1952, Smoke Bomb Hill, Fort Bragg, North 40
Carolina
Gail and I 41
Betty Ann, September 1953, Fort Bragg 43
At Captain Smith's 44
April 8, 1954, Berchtesgaden 45
Summer 1954, Benediktbeuern 46
Intelligence and Language School, Oberammergau 49
Identical Dresses Lined Up for the Camera 50
February 1955, Dachau, behind the Crematorium 53
Italy, 1955 56
Christmas 1956, Wasson, Illinois 58
Flint Kaserne 61
Aunt Lorraine 62