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[[War Diaries (nonfiction)|War Diary]] quotations for [[October 27]]
[[War Diaries (nonfiction)|War Diary]] entries for [[October 27]]


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== Quotations ==
== Diaries ==
 
=== Benjamin Gilbert: October 27, 1779 ===
 
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Got back to camp just before sunrise and meeting again at 8 o’clock we kept it up drinking all day
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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


=== Mister Park: October 27, 1943 ===
=== Mister Park: October 27, 1943 ===
''[[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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remittance and then sent it out via the Central Post Office.
remittance and then sent it out via the Central Post Office.
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''[[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.
* [http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Chapter-51.pdf Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager] @ sdh-fact.com
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_a_Japanese_Military_Brothel_Manager Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager]


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


* [[Benjamin Gilbert (nonfiction)]]
* [[Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager (nonfiction)]]
* [[Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager (nonfiction)]]
* [[War (nonfiction)]]
* [[War (nonfiction)]]
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== External links ==
== External links ==


* [https://www.historyisfun.org/learn/learning-center/benjamin-gilbert/ Benjamin Gilbert] @ historyisfun.org
* [http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Chapter-51.pdf Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager] @ sdh-fact.com  
* [http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Chapter-51.pdf Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager] @ sdh-fact.com  
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_a_Japanese_Military_Brothel_Manager Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_a_Japanese_Military_Brothel_Manager Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager]

Revision as of 07:55, 10 May 2020

War Diary entries for October 27

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Diaries

Benjamin Gilbert: October 27, 1779

Got back to camp just before sunrise and meeting again at 8 o’clock we kept it up drinking all day

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.

Mister Park: October 27, 1943

At the request of a comfort woman, I withdrew six hundred yen from her savings for remittance and then sent it out via the Central Post Office.

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.

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

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