Winner of the 2012 Denig Award of the USMC Combat Correspondents Association

Filling a gap in the history of U.S. Marine Corps aviation history, War Is Not Just for Heroes rescues the incredible true stories written by one marine as a combat correspondent in the Pacific during World War II as shared through his dispatches, letters, diary entries, personal notes, and tapes. Much of the source material used in researching War is Not Just for Heroes, which includes news dispatches, photographs, and clippings, was generated during Claude Canup's Marine Corps service. Canup also referenced a...