Last Letters from Attu: The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese POW Entertainment_Gift_Guide Kennedy Town

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Last Letters from Attu: The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese POW Entertainment_Gift_Guide Kennedy TownEtta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She was a school teacher whose life changed forever on that Sunday morning in June 1942 when the Japanese military invaded Attu Island and Etta became a prisoner of war. Etta and her sister moved to the Territory of Alaska in 1922. She planned to stay only one year as a vacation, but this 40 something year old nurse from back east met Foster Jones and fell in love. They married and for