What Really Happened to Warren Winslow?

Stephen Fender

doi:10.1017/s002187580001344x

What Really Happened to Warren Winslow?

Journal of American Studies ◽

10.1017/s002187580001344x ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 187-190 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Stephen Fender

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

World War ◽

Naval Vessel

Robert Lowell's The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket is dedicated to ‘Warren Winslow, Dead at Sea’. Academic treatments of the poem point out that Winslow, Lowell's cousin, was killed in action at sea in World War II, though as to the more specific details of his death there is little agreement among the scholarly commentators. Here are four versions, in the order of their appearance in print:During World War II, the naval vessel on which Lowell's cousin, Warren Winslow, was serving disappeared and no Ishmael survived to explain her fate.

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Jewish GIs and the Creation of the Judeo-Christian Tradition

Religion and American Culture A Journal of Interpretation ◽

10.1525/rac.1998.8.1.03a00020 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 31-53 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Deborah Dash Moore

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Christian Tradition ◽

English Channel ◽

World War ◽

Naval Vessel ◽

The Creation ◽

American Jewish

“Fifty years ago last June,” Bernard Bellush recalled, “our naval vessel, LST 379, plowed through the choppy waters of the English Channel under overcast skies. We were part of the vast Allied armada heading for the D-day invasion of Omaha Beach in France. Despite briefings,” he admitted, “not one of us was prepared for the cliffs bristling with German armament.” Raised in a socialist Jewish home, Bellush joined the army to fight in World War II like tens of thousands of other American Jewish men. His recollections deserve our attention not merely for the time and place that they recall—though the experience of the D-Day invasion is inherently interesting—but also for what happened on LST 379 as it crossed the Channel in 1944.

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