Published: Oct. 31, 2011
Words: 7769 (approximate)
Language: English

Short description

History records no act of greater valor than Charles Harold Gonsalves. In mortal combat he deliberately covered a live enemy hand grenade with his body. He was only 19 years old when he died. The author describes a mild mannered youth from Alameda, California's transformation into a killing machine. This book also sheds much neede light on Executive Order 9066 that incarcerated Japanese Americans.

Extended description

California Valor provides understanding of
indoctrination and propoganda to make Marines hate Japs. Trainees saw movies showing Jap soldiers raping women and throwing a baby in the air and catching it with bayonets. Another movie was about a Marine raid on the island of Makin. There were 90 Marines landed from a submarine. They killed 35 Japs and destroyed their communications towers. When the submarine departed, nine marines were left behind. They were all captured and beheaded on orders from Tokyo. One trainer told about Japs taking 25,000 Korean noses home to Japan to be enshrined in a Temple. Trainees sang songs: We’ll nip the Nipponese, We’re going to play Yankee Doodle in Tokyo, Let's Remember Pearl Harbor as we did the Alamo, and You’re a Sap, Mr. Jap.

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Review by: Juan Batista on May 18, 2012 :
While this book was intended to be a memorial to a Medal of Honor winner, it winds up being largely a chilling account of racist propaganda and indoctrination, how a young man with no prior history of hating Japanese was trained to think of them as less than human and worthy only of death and concentration camps.
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