Product Description Recalls the wartime exploits of Arizonans who answered their country's call, as well as the adventures of those on the home front. Included here are some of World War II's most incredible stories, such as the testing of tank engines in Arizona dust storms for the North Africa campaign, the interrogation of Japanese consular diplomats from Honolulu at the Triangle T Guest Ranch near Dragoon, and the escape of 25 German POWs from a detention camp outside of Phoenix--called the greatest escape by Axis prisoners from a U.S. compound during the war. A separate chapter pays tribute to Arizona's most famous war heroes, a host of profiles and sidebars bring people and events of the wartime era to life, and an appendix provides a traveler's guide to Arizona's World War II sites.
