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The personal war stories of among the Crimson Tide football players who participated in the Good War are told in When Winning Used to be Everything, a tribute to all of the players who earned our enduring admiration not only on the football field but also in wartime.
More than three hundred former University of Alabama football players and coaches saw military duty throughout World War II, and lots of of them played heroic leading roles in the bitter fight against Axis aggression. Their stories are given compelling life by Delbert Reed in When Winning Used to be The whole thing: Alabama Football Players in World War II.
Alabama football players, like millions of other young men in The us, rushed to enroll in the fight soon after the Japanese bombed america Navy’s Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. Six Crimson Tide players joined the Marines at halftime throughout one Alabama football game. Two others—Paul “Bear” Bryant and George Zivich—literally pushed their way to the front of the line to enroll in up.
Former University of Alabama football players served on each and every front and in almost each and every major battle of World War II. They were privates and colonels, pilots and foot soldiers. They served on submarines andcarriers, flew bombers and led pack mules through thick Asian jungles. They were frontline Marines and training instructors and The whole thing in between. They helped make up The us’s fighting team in wartime, and, as Delbert Reed shows, their victory Used to be far greater than any Rose Bowl win.
More than three hundred former University of Alabama football players and coaches saw military duty throughout World War II, and lots of of them played heroic leading roles in the bitter fight against Axis aggression. Their stories are given compelling life by Delbert Reed in When Winning Used to be The whole thing: Alabama Football Players in World War II.
Alabama football players, like millions of other young men in The us, rushed to enroll in the fight soon after the Japanese bombed america Navy’s Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. Six Crimson Tide players joined the Marines at halftime throughout one Alabama football game. Two others—Paul “Bear” Bryant and George Zivich—literally pushed their way to the front of the line to enroll in up.
Former University of Alabama football players served on each and every front and in almost each and every major battle of World War II. They were privates and colonels, pilots and foot soldiers. They served on submarines andcarriers, flew bombers and led pack mules through thick Asian jungles. They were frontline Marines and training instructors and The whole thing in between. They helped make up The us’s fighting team in wartime, and, as Delbert Reed shows, their victory Used to be far greater than any Rose Bowl win.
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