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God Was at Midway: The Sinking of the USS Yorktown (CV-5) and the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway

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God Was At Midway by Stan--my husband for nearly 60 years--tells our story of trusting God in the early years of our marriage during World War II.

Filled with adventure, excitement, and romance, Stan tells the factual and personal aspects of the events leading up to the Battle of Midway. He also reveals how God changed the course of history in personal lives and in our nation through the most significant battle of this Second Great War.

God Was At Midway is must reading for those searching for a deeper understanding of not only how the Holy Spirit operates in human affairs but also how the Holy Spirit impacts personal lives through these events.

In short, God Was At Midway is scholarly, concise and a valuable contribution.

Stan successfully appeals to an eclectic audience!

Chaplain Stanford E. Linzey's book-God Was At Midway-has incorporated the author's love of God, wife, and call to duty. This is the ultimate war story of love and sacrifice, the Godly wife who prayed for her husband and stood with him no matter what, while he faced possible death while many of his shipmates suffer horribly.

God Was At Midway is the story of God's divine intervention in people's lives at war, the author's personal life, and in the affairs of the nation as a whole.

The Battle of Midway was the turning point of World War II. The complete historical accuracy of Linzey's book places this author on par with the best writers of the subject.

- Vera Waisanen, Educator & Mother -

This book, God Was At Midway, impacts many from the perspective that it is about the life of a very young enlisted man who had the courage to believe he was to make a differenct in other young men's lives on the seas, at war and far from home. He had the stamina to believe he would survive and physically rescue another life from drowning as the Yorktown went down. He had the faith and the hope that he would return to his family. And he had the strength to carry out his duties on the job, his spiritual duties with the men, while mentally remaining focused, sane, and strategically thoughtful in every aspect of his being. Not only that, he kept his sense of humor during and after the ordeal.

While reading his story, one can feel the uplifting, the positiveness of what life should be about and how we should approach life.

I am a mother of (3) sons who are too young to realistically know what war is. This is another world they do not understand. This book would make a great movie, a TV special; or an excellent mini-series.

"God Was At Midway" is a very special piece of history, for it tells the story of the great 1942 battle from a perspective you probably haven't yet seen or expected. You can get every detail of what led up to the battle, how it was fought, and what aftermath resulted from the well-known works of Walter Lord, Gordon Prange, Robert Cressman, Mitsuo Fuchida, and other professional historians. Linzey, though, was and is none of those. Instead, he tells the story from the perspective of a young sailor who basically expected to perform a non-combatant role as a musician in the ship's band, but was instead caught up in a titanic (pun intended) struggle of violent combat and survival aboard the USS Yorktown. Young Linzey was a devoted Christian, which led him to a subsequent career as a U.S. Navy chaplain. His faith in God is a fundamental theme in the book, particularly with regard to the apparent divine intervention that brought about the unlikely American victory at Midway.
Any serious student of the Battle of Midway will want this book in his or her collection. It is a worthy complement to the more familiar historical works.

A young married sailor fought the battle of Midway in USS YORKTOWN. Torpedoed and bombed all hands went over the side to be rescued by U.S. Navy destroyers. A story of God answering prayers as sailors attened bible classes. This is must reading.

God Was At Midway, by Dr. Stanford E. Linzey, Jr., is an outstanding inspirational and historical account of how war has brought numerous military personnel to do the incredible with divine intervention. This account is a personally moving, true story of fear, courage, shipwreck and rescue, separaton and reunion, and how sailors came fo faith in Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.

- Chaplain (CPT) Jim Linzey, United States Army -

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I could not put the book down once I started reading. It is a personal account of navy life of a young enlisted sailor during World War II. You can feel the emotions of sailors in times of battle and how they overcame their fears. I is must reading.

If you like adventure, sea stories, love stories, action, and miraculous answers to prayer, this book is a must read. The book is current, seeing that the aircraft carrier, USS Yorktown, was discovered last May three miles in the deep by Dr. Bob Ballard of Titanic fame.

The author was a nineteen year old sailor during the sinking of the carrier, and is now a retired Navy captain.

I ordered my copy from the author directly, and he autographed it for me. I have lent it out to many friends for their reading pleasure.