Commander Walter Karig and Lieutenant Welbourn Kelley. Battle Report. Armed Services Edition [T-31]. BAP.
A number of ASE's dwelt on issues of the war itself, from a step-by step account of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Battle Report, to the fictional tale of American soldiers in American Guerrilla in the Philippines.
Bill Mauldin. Up Front. Armed Services Edition [822]. BAP.
Ira Wolfert. American Guerilla in The Philippines. Armed Services Edition [635]. BAP
Raymond Chandler. The Big Sleep. Armed Services Edition [751]. UVa
At first, the selection committee included very few whodunits, but (after frequent complaints) books like The Big Sleep, The Fallen Sparrow, and Calamity Town were added to the lists, and a good portion of the 1,322 titles ultimately distributed were mystery novels.
Dorothy B. Hughes. The Fallen Sparrow. Armed Services Edition [869]. UVa
Ellery Queen. Calamity Town. Armed Services Edition [680]. UVa
Willa Cather. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Armed Services Edition [D-97]. UVa.
In a 1945 Saturday Evening Post article, David G. Wittels reported on one soldier who had been shot in the ankle and who had to wait in a foxhole for help: "Corp. Erwin Rorick spent the hours before help came reading Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop. He grabbed it the day before under the delusion that it was a murder mystery, but he discovered, to his amazement, that he liked it anyway."