"After stumbling across boxes of his deceased mother and father's diaries, letters, photographs, and newspaper clippings, the author pieced together a remarkable story. Largely unknown to him at the time, the materials offered glimpses of his parents' service in the United States Army during World War II. His mother, Angelina Mango, and his father Gustavus Anderson both served in the Pacific Theatre, forged together a war-time marriage. Ms. Mango,...