Baseball, Battle, and a Bride: An Okie in World War II

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Robert Freese was once twenty-five when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. A month later, he was once drafted. Following a couple of months of training within the States, Robert shipped out to Australia with the 32nd Infantry Division, the first US Army unit to take the fight to the Japanese. After playing baseball for the division and training for battle, Robert was once transported north to New Guinea with the remainder of the 32nd Infantry Division. In November 1942, after enduring a grueling two month journey through an unforgiving jungle environment just to get into position to attack, MacArthur’s forces engaged the Japanese at the Battle of Buna, now referred to as “Bloody Buna.” Robert was once within the thick of the action, as the mission of his regiment was once to take the two Japanese airfields central to the entire operation.

The title Baseball, Battle, and a Bride: (An Okie in World War II) comes from Robert’s quest to play professional baseball before World War II and his place at the 32nd Infantry Division’s team, his role within the Battle of Buna and two amphibious operations, and his romance of Leona Nievar, which resulted of their wedding in November 1944 and, thus far, sixty-five years of marriage.

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