From Poplar to Papua

Author Martin J. Kidston has written the compelling, and until now untold, story of courageous young Montanans in the Pacific during World War II.
Kidston shares the soldiers’ sometimes humorous, often chilling, and always fascinating accounts of the years they spent fighting the Japanese after the historic bombing of Pearl Harbor. The stories are collected from personal journals, news stories, and survivor interviews. Kidston also recounts how the 1,500 young men left their hometowns in Mon...