Bill McWilliams, "Scrimmage for War: A Story of Pearl Harbor, Football, and World War II"
English | ISBN: 0811738671 | 2019 | 400 pages | EPUB | 13 MB
In late November 1941, two college football teams-Willamette University and San Jose State-set sail for Honolulu for a series of games with the University of Hawaii. Instead of a festive few weeks of football and fun, the players found themselves caught up in the first days of the United States' war with Japan. For two weeks after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, the young men were recruited to dig and man trenches, string barbed wire, guard hotels, and join patrols as martial law took hold in Honolulu. They arrived home on Christmas Day after a dangerous journey back across the Pacific. Almost all of the players would go on to fight in the war.