The novel Semper Fi takes place in the year before the attack on Pearl Harbor and follows through the very early days of the war. Social issues, then, are typical of late prewar attitudes. For example, the main character, Kenneth "Killer" McCoy, is stationed in the Marine Corps in China in late 1940. Attitudes toward Chinese and Japanese, as well.....
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