One of the twelve 105-mm howitzers of Wilber’s battalion (152nd Field Artillery) firing “over the American perimeter,” Aitape, New Guinea, August 4, 1944. [Photo : U.S. Army Signal Corps, SC 267974]
Norma Sparlin Bradt at her new grand piano, about 1937. {Photo: Bradt family)
Wilber (right) as freshman at Indiana University in his SATC uniform, 1918. [Photo: Bradt family]
Truck in the rain and mud on the newly constructed road leading to Ipo Dam, in the 103rd Infantry zone, 5/18/45. [Photo: U.S. Army Signal Corps, SC 312642]
12/31/16. Wilber’s War (abridged): An American Family’s Journey through World War II was formally published on Dec. 7, 2016! It was also Pearl Harbor Day and my 86th Birthday. We celebrated it all at the Salem Athenaeum where I gave... Read More
How did we finish up? We of course did not submit the book’s text to my designer, Lisa Carta, until it was “letter perfect,” or so I thought.
My “final” version had been edited by my wonderful editor, Francie King, and all her suggested ed... Read More
