by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 15, 2017 | Alvin Josephy, BGen Robert Denig, Denig’s Demons, Leatherneck Magazine, US Marines
Denig awards Alvin Bronze StarBefore he met the Nez Perce, before he wrote about American Indians, Alvin Josephy was a Marine Corps Combat Correspondent in the Pacific in World War II. He traveled with a typewriter and a wire recorder, wrote thousands of dispatches to...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 7, 2010 | Alvin Josephy, Guam, Iwo Jima, Pacific War, US Marines
Alvin at warBeing a direct participant in World War II was a choice for Alvin Josephy—but not much of one. Born in 1915, he came of age in the depths of the Depression as fascist regimes were gaining power in Europe. He’d been involved with student groups and national...
