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| Introduction | |
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| Defeat | |
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| From Canto LXXXIII | |
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| R.A.F. | |
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| Pearl Harbor | |
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| The Bloody Sire | |
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| "Keeping Their World Large" | |
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| Three Star Final | |
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| From By the Well of Living and Seeing | |
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| "When he was small, when he would fall" | |
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| Ode to Our Young Pro-consuls of the Air | |
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| To a Military Rifle | |
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| Moonlight Alert | |
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| Night of Battle | |
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| The Witness | |
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| The Fury of Aerial Bombardment | |
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| A Ceremony by the Sea | |
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| from Aesthetics After War: Instruments | |
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| from A Song for the Year's End | |
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| Reflection by a Mailbox | |
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| Careless Love | |
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| September 1, 1939 | |
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| Snatch | |
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| Patton | |
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| Rank | |
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| P.O.E. | |
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| Survival: Infantry | |
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| from Of Being Numerous | |
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| Rifle Range: Louisiana | |
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| Pacific | |
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| Amphibians | |
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| Three American Women and a German Bayonet | |
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| The Spool | |
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| The City of Beggars | |
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| The Airman Who Flew Over Shakespeare's England | |
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| The Raid | |
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| The Blinding of Isaac Woodard | |
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| Navigator | |
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| Shot Down at Night | |
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| Scyros | |
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| Troop Train | |
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| Full Moon: New Guinea | |
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| Lord, I Have Seen Too Much | |
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| Homecoming | |
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| The Moon and the Night and the Men | |
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| Eighth Air Force | |
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| The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner | |
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| Transient Barracks | |
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| O My Name It Is Sam Hall | |
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| A Camp in the Prussian Forest | |
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| June 1940 | |
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| The City as Hero | |
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| At the Grave of My Brother: Bomber Pilot | |
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| Explaining the Big One | |
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| Some Remarks When Richard Hugo Came | |
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| Men | |
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| To the Woman in Bond Street Station | |
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| Song | |
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| Elegy Just in Case | |
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| V-J Day | |
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| A Box Comes Home | |
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| Elegy for a Cove Full of Bones | |
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| Homecoming | |
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| Remembering That Island | |
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| Kilroy | |
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| "Vale" from Carthage | |
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| Ripeness Is All | |
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| from Beach Red | |
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| Negro Hero | |
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| On the Eve of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception: 1942 | |
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| The Bomber | |
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| Memories of West Street and Lepke | |
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| Soldiers in Death | |
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| Memorial | |
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| Epithalamium in Olive Drab | |
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| Pidgin Pinch | |
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| Columbus Circle Swing | |
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| A Spring Memorandum: Fort Knox | |
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| Navy Field | |
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| Love Letter from an Impossible Land | |
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| Simile | |
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| Flight as a Way of Life | |
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| A Fable of the War | |
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| A Memory of the War | |
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| Night Operations, Coastal Command RAF | |
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| The War in the Air | |
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| IFF | |
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| On a Certain Engagement South of Seoul | |
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| Jethro Somes' Apostrophe to His Former Comrades | |
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| Mined Country | |
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| First Snow in Alsace | |
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| Place Pigalle | |
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| The Firebombing | |
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| Memorial Service for the Invasion Beach Where the Vacation in the Flesh Is Over | |
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| Portrait from the Infantry | |
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| Self-Exhortation on Military Themes | |
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| Stentor and Mourning | |
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| from Rites and Ceremonies: The Room | |
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| "More Light! More Light!" | |
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| Still Life | |
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| Where We Crashed | |
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| Spinizzola: Quella Cantina La | |
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| Note from Capri to Richard Ryan on the Adriatic Floor | |
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| Arm in Arm | |
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| Carentan O Carentan | |
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| Memories of a Lost War | |
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| Old Soldier | |
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| On the Ledge | |
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| A Bower of Roses | |
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| The Stoic: For Laura Von Courten | |
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| World War II | |
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| Mothball Fleet: Benicia, California | |
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| Battle Report | |
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| War Stories | |
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| Sniper | |
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| To Carelessness | |
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| To World War Two | |
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| Beachhead | |
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| Ten Days Leave | |
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| Returned to Frisco, 1946 | |
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| The Lost Pilot | |
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| Biographical Notes | |
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| Sources and Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index of Titles and First Lines | |