Bibliography of Montana’s Home Front During World War II

Montana's Home Front During World War II
Montana’s Home Front During WW II

Adleman, Robert, and Col. George Walton. The Devil’s Brigade. New York: Bantam Books. 1966.

Anaconda Copper Mining Company Records. MC 169 Boxes 69, 70, 71, 72. MHS Archives, Helena.

Anderson, Paul O. One damned Fight After Another: The combat Record of the USS Helena from Dec. 7, 1941 to July 1943. No publisher listed. 1944.

Benedetti, Umberto. Italian Boys at Fort Missoula, Montana: 1941-1943. Missoula: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co. 1990.

Bosworth, Allan R. America’s Concentration Camps. New York: Bantam Books. 1967.

Burhans, Lt. Col. Robert D. The First Special Service Force: A War History of the North Americans. Washington Infantry Journal Press. 1947.

Burlingame, Merrill G. A History-Montana State University, Bozeman Montana. Bozeman: Office of Information Publication. 1968.

Casten, Ray J. USS Helena: The Machine Gun Cruiser: A Shipmate’s Memoirs, 1942-43. No publisher listed. 1991.

Cohen, Stan. The Forgotten War. Four volumes. Missoula: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co. 1981.

— V For Victory. Missoula: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co. 1991.

Duncan, Walter & Perdita, Elmo Fortune and William Fenter. Interviewed by Laurie Mercier, March 24, 1983, Butte. OH 483. MHS Archives, Helena.

Eichelberger, Robert L. Our Jungle Road to Tokyo. New York: Viking Press. 1950.

Fischer, Karen. “Training Sled Dogs at Camp Rimini, 1942-1944.” Montana, the Magazine of Western History. (Winter 1984).

Fox, Stephen. The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans during World War II. Boston: Twayne Publishers.1990.

Furdell, William J. “The Great Falls Home Front During World War II.” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 48 (Winter 1998): 63-75.

Giles, Kevin S. Flight of the Dove: The Story of Jeannette Rankin. Beaverton Oregon: Touchstone Press. 1980.

Gilluly, Bob, ed. The Grizzly Gridiron. Missoula: Montana State University. 1960.

Glancy, William. Interviewed by Ken Karsmizki, September 28, 1983, Roundup. OH 516. MHS Archives, Helena.

Gordon, Dennis. “Black Monday-A Liberator Falls.” The Montana Journal. December 15, 1987.

Guth, A. Richard, and Cohen, Stan. Northern Region: A Pictorial History of the U.S. Forest Service, 1891-1945. Missoula: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company. 1991.

Hammel, Eric. Guadalcanal: Decision at Sea. New York: Crown Publishers. 1988.

— Guadalcanal: Starvation Island. New York: Crown Publishers. 1987.

Haugland, Vern. Letter From New Guinea. New York and Toronto: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc. 1943.

Howard, Joseph Kinsey. Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1943.

Jarussi, Lillian & Loretta. Interviewed by Laurie Mercier, September 24, 1982, Red Lodge. OH 363. MHS Archives, Helena.

Jordan, George Racey. From Major Jordan’s Diaries. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. 1952.

Josephson, Hannah. First Lady in Congress, Jeannette Rankin. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Inc. 1974.

Kenney, William. The Crucial Years, 1940-1945. New York: McFadden Books. 1962.

Kent, Graeme. Guadalcanal: Island Ordeal. New York: Ballantine Books. 1971.

Kidston, Martin J. From Poplar to Papua: Montana’s 163rd Regiment in World War II. Helena. Farcountry Press. 2004.

Klingaman, William K. 1941: Our Lives in a World On the Edge. New York: Harper & Row Publishers. 1988.

Knaefler, Tomi Kaizawa. “Our House Divided: Seven Japanese Families in World War II.” Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 1991.

Lacey, Richard. Montana Militia, A History of Montana’s Volunteer Forces, 1867-1976. Dillon: Dillon Tribune Examiner Press. 1976.

Lemish, Michael G. War Dogs: A History of Loyalty and Heroism. Washington D.C.: Brassey’s. 1996.

Loken, Scott C. “Montana During World War II.” Unpublished Master’s Thesis, University of Montana. 1993.

Lowery, Geraldine. The American Legion in Montana 1919-1963. American Legion, Montana Department. 1965.

Malone, Michael P., Roeder, Richard B., Lang, William L., Montana: A History of Two Centuries. revised ed. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. 1991.

Mansfield, Mike Papers: 1903-1990. Series 3 – 5/16, 6/5-7, 7/2-4. Mansfield Library Archives, Missoula.

McKinney, Wilbur “Mac.” Interviewed by Laurie Mercier, February 25, 1983, Helena. OH 654. MHS Archives, Helena.

Merriam, H.G. The University of Montana: A History. Missoula: University of Montana Press. 1970.

Milbrook, Ann, “Great Falls Army Air Base and the Lend-Lease Air Route to Siberia” Montana History Conference (36th). Great Falls, Mont. 2009.

Montana 28th Legislative Assembly, 1943. LR 28, Box 1, folders 15, 16, 17. MHS Archives, Helena.

Montana 29th Legislative Assembly, 1945. LR 29, Box 1, Folders 34, 44,49. MHS Archives, Helena.

Montana Governor’s Records, MC 35, Boxes 87, 107, 108, 112-114, 121. MHS Archives. Helena.

Montana Historical Society, ed. Not in Precious Metals Alone: A Manuscript History of Montana. Helena: Montana Historical Society Press. 1976

Montana Preparedness and Advisory Commission records, 1942-1945. RS 46. MHS Archives, Helena.

Montana State University, editor. The Montana Almanac 1959-60. Missoula: Montana State University.

Morris, C.G., with Hugh B. Cave. The Fightin’est Ship: The Story of the Cruiser Helena. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. 1944.

Morrison, Samuel Elliot. The Two-Ocean War. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press. 1963.

— History of US Naval Operations in World War II, vol. 5. The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942-February 1943. Boston: Little Brown and Co. 1949.

Mulhern, Bessie Towey. Interviewed by Laurie Mercier, November 23, 1981, Butte. OH 213. MHS Archives, Helena.

Murphy, Mary. Hope in Hard Times: New Deal Photographs of Montana 1936-1942. Helena: Montana Historical Society Press. 2003.

Paladin, Vivian, and Jean Baucus. Helena, An Illustrated History. Norfolk, Virginia: The Donning Company. 1983.

Polenberg, Richard. America at War. Englewood Hills, N.J.: Prentice Hall, Inc. 1968.

Rydell, Robert; Safford, Jeffrey; and Mullen, Pierce. In the People’s Interest. Montana State University Foundation, 1992.

Saiki, Patsy Sumie. Ganbare! An Example of Japanese Spirit. Honolulu: Kisaku, Inc. 1982.

Shore, Chester K. Montana in the Wars. Compiled for the American Legion and Auxiliary of Montana. Miles City: Star Printing. 1973.

Smith, Phyllis. Bozeman and the Gallatin Valley: A History. Two Dot Books. 1996.

Sommerville, Donald. World War II, Day by Day. Dorset Press. Greenwich, Ct. 1989.

Springer, Joseph A. The Black Devil Brigade: The True Story of the First Special Service Force: An Oral History. Pacifica Military History. Pacifica Ca. 2001.

Spritzer, Don. Roadside History of Montana. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Co. 1999.

— Senator James E. Murray and the Limits of Post-War Liberalism. New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc. 1985.

Stuwe, Janne Willits. East Base 1940-1946. Air Transport Command, Army Air Forces. 1974.

Time Magazine. “Italy: News from Montana.” August 18, 1941.

Toole, John. Battle Diary. Missoula: Vigilante Press. 1978.

— Red Ribbons, A Story of Missoula and Its Newspaper. Lee Enterprises. 1987.

Toole, K. Ross. Twentieth Century Montana, A State of Extremes. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1972.

United States Army Intelligence records: Japanese war balloons, 1942-1945. SC 2340. MHS Archives, Helena.

U.S. Forest Service. History of Smokejumping. Missoula: USDA Forest Service Northern Region. 1976.

U.S. Navy. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Washington, D.C: Office of Chief of Naval Operation, Naval History Dept. 1969.

Vader, John. New Guinea, The Tide is Stemmed. New York: Ballantine Books Inc. 1971.

Van Valkenburg, Carol. “An Alien Place: The Fort Missoula, Montana Detention Camp, 1941-1944.” Master’s Thesis, University of Montana 1988.

Werth, Alexander. Russia At War, 1941-1945. New York: Avon Books. 1964.

Westerfield, Hargis. 41st Infantry: The Fighting Jungleers. 41st Infantry Division Association. 1980.

Westerfield, Hargis. Research Collection: 41st Infantry Division. MC 364 Boxes 2, 4, 5, 7, 10. MHS Archives, Helena.

Wheeler, Burton K. and Healy, Paul F. Yankee From the West. New York: Doubleday and Co. Garden City. 1962.

Wheeler, Burton K. Papers. MC-34 Boxes 4, 5, 6, 23, 24. MHS Archives, Helena.

Zemke, Hubert, and Roger Freeman. Zemke’s Wolf Pack. New York: Orion Books. 1989.

— Zemke’s Stalag. Washington, D.C. and London. Smithsonian Institution Press. 1991.

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