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[[War Diaries (nonfiction)|War Diary]] quotations for [[October 28]]
[[War Diaries (nonfiction)|War Diary]] entries for [[October 28]]


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== Quotations ==
== Diaries ==


=== Mister Park: October 27, 1943 ===
=== Benjamin Gilbert: October 28, 1779 ===
 
''[[Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager (nonfiction)|Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager]]'' is a book of diaries written by a clerk who worked in Japanese military brothels, also known as "comfort stations", in Burma and Singapore during World War II. The author, a Korean businessman known only as Mister Park, kept a daily diary between 1922 and 1957.


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At the request of a comfort woman, I withdrew six hundred yen from her savings for
We began drinking again this morning and held it till 11 o’ clock.
remittance and then sent it out via the Central Post Office.
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[[Benjamin Gilbert (nonfiction)|Benjamin Gilbert]] was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War whose kept a diary and wrote letters. The diary entries are terse and heavily abbreviated. They nearly always include a comment about the weather. There is very little information about actual fighting or battles, but they do frequently describe preparing to fight and moving from place to place. They contain information not usually found in descriptions of the typical activities of continental soldiers.
* [https://www.historyisfun.org/learn/learning-center/benjamin-gilbert/ Benjamin Gilbert] @ historyisfun.org


== In the News ==
== In the News ==
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== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==


* [[Reina Spiegel (nonfiction)]]
* [[Benjamin Gilbert (nonfiction)]]
* [[War (nonfiction)]]
* [[War (nonfiction)]]
* [[War Diaries (nonfiction)]]
* [[War Diaries (nonfiction)]]
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== External links ==
== External links ==


* [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hear-o-israel-save-us-renia-spiegel-diary-english-translation-holocaust-poland-180970536/ Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegel] @ Smithsonian Magazine
* [https://www.historyisfun.org/learn/learning-center/benjamin-gilbert/ Benjamin Gilbert] @ historyisfun.org


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Latest revision as of 07:59, 10 May 2020

War Diary entries for October 28

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Diaries

Benjamin Gilbert: October 28, 1779

We began drinking again this morning and held it till 11 o’ clock.

Benjamin Gilbert was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War whose kept a diary and wrote letters. The diary entries are terse and heavily abbreviated. They nearly always include a comment about the weather. There is very little information about actual fighting or battles, but they do frequently describe preparing to fight and moving from place to place. They contain information not usually found in descriptions of the typical activities of continental soldiers.

In the News

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