Round Trip, Looneyville/Tokyo, Second Edition

About the Book

“Fantastic information. It was very hard to lay this manuscript aside and turn to another task.” In compiling this narrative about the twentieth century, the author has captured the true emotions of the farmers and mechanics, born in the twentieth century, who fought the overseas tyrannical influences and saved democracy for the United States. The many direct comments included in the book from the author’s old shipmates, as well as troops carried by the USS George F. Elliott, plus the USS Lakatoi crew who, had to survive for two weeks in the open sea on life rafts, give a fascinating living history of the dangers the young men of the twentieth century faced. There are over 450 pages of living history told in “Round Trip, Looneyville/Tokyo” and a major portion of it comes directly from the common men who were involved in the various exciting events of the 1900s. The men tell about such things as the pre-World War II depression era and being uprooted from their familiar environment to that of one totally foreign to them, and their emotions in coping with military combat and D-Day landings. The men of yester-year write candidly about their participation in major D-day landings, such, as the terrible battles for Saipain Island, Leyte Island, Luzon Island, Iwo Jima Island, and Okinawa Island. Openly, they tell us about their emotions – sorrows – homesickness – defeats – victories -- fun times -- bad times – terrible weather conditions – horrible living conditions. Those rugged old twentieth century warriors even tell about how they were able to make fun while they were facing the wartime enemy in very hostile situations. The twentieth century veterans write openly about post-war treatment by the American public and their way of life during the 1900s - - some of the fabulous things their country did for them and some of the not so fabulous ones. To this day the author claims we do not owe any apologizes to the Japenese for the awfuld damages we inflicted upon them. He does not believe in that forgive and forget bunk that is floated around by many U. S. citizerns. It is incredible how Jake Miller has entwined the major happenings about military events from 1900 to 2000 with the individual veterans living history tales.

About the Author

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Jake Miller holds a masters degree from Marshall University.  He is retired from the U. S. Navy, and also retired from the West Virginia State Board of Education.  Miller is a native of West Virginia and spent his childhood and early teen years in a rural Appalachian Mountain environment during the great depression of the 1920s and 1930s.  Miller was serving aboard a U. S. Navy ship in the Pacific war zone when he was still seventeen years of age.  He has traveled extensively, both as a military man and as a civilian, concentrating on the folklore and popular etymology of other cultures.  His travels have been in Africa, Canada, Europe, Greenland, Iceland, the Far East, Latin America, Mexico, the Middle East, and the United States.