One Soldier's Story: WWII Service Record: Leyte & Okinawa

by Jacob Wesley Zimmerli, Michael Zimmerli (Editor)

Overview

From a small town in southern Minnesota, Jacob Zimmerli was sent to the other side of the world to a place called the Philippines. It was World War 2, and Jacob Wesley Zimmerli was part of the US Army. More specifically, he was a member of the 96th Infantry, a division called The Deadeyes. He was 18 when enlisted, and 20 when he came home.

This is his story of those days, from enlistment until he was home again. Relatives of soldiers from WWII who have never heard their father's or grandfather's story of their time in the war will find this a great resource, and may discover it is a source for closure. Told without fanfare or gory details, this is the story so many soldiers lived.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798765560228
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	04/25/2022
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

J. Wesley Zimmerli was always good with numbers, a skill that stood him well as a military supply clerk and later as an accountant after WWII. He and his wife, Dagny, were married for 72 years before she passed away just before Christmas in 2018. He continues to live in Assisted Living in a small Iowa farm town, and is tickled by the attention he has received over his book. He andn Dagny had five boys - Paul, Gary, Kevin, Michael, and Brian. A sixth, Mark Robert, was stillborn in 1963. Paul passed away in 2017 after a long career in the US Air Force and as a journalist and newspaper editor.

Michael Zimmerli had a varied career in radio and newspapers before going into fulltime ministry in 2004. He left the ministry at the end of 2020 and became a freelance editor and writer as something he could carry with him into retirement and do for as long as he desired. One Soldier's Story is his first book, but in his first year as a freelancer, he has edited, formatted, and ghostwritten over fifteen books. He lives in coastal Southeast Georgia with his wife of over forty years. They have two grown children.

Adam Zimmerli, Michael's son, recorded the interview with his grandfather in 2004 as a senior class project for his college history degree. He is a library manager who loves history and skydiving.