So I'm safe, but unfortunately all out of ammo and with a Panzer fully aware of where I'm hiding and locked onto my next move like a hawk. The tension is reaching its height when I make a daylight run to one of the Nazi bodies where I can grab a stick grenade and lob it at the war machine that has just launched a shell at my former hiding place. I do so and get a lucky stnke - the tank erupts and Germans pour out of it their bodies aflame. All that's left to do is open up the wrecked tank's inventory, remove a massive machine gun and mow down the soldiers that've been attracted by the uproar.
When drafted into the army in 1943, A. Cleveland Harrison was a reluctant eighteen-year-old Arkansas student sure that he would not make a good soldier. But inside thirty months he manfully bore arms and more. This book is his memoir about becoming a soldier, a common infantryman among the ranks of those who truly won the war. After the Allied victory in 1945, books by and about the major statesmen, generals, and heroes of World War II appeared regularly. Yet millions of American soldiers who helped achieve and secure victory slipped silently into civilian life, trying to forget the war and what they had done. Most remain unsung, for virtually none thought of themselves as exceptional. During the war ordinary soldiers had only done what they believed their country expected. Harrison's firsthand account is the full history of what happened to him in three units from 1943 to 1946, disclosing the sensibilities, the conflicting emotions, and the humor that coalesced within the naive draftee. He details the induction and basic training procedures, his student experiences in Army pre-engineering school, his infantry training and overseas combat, battle wounds and the complete medical pipeline of hospitalization and recovery, the waits in replacement depots, life in the Army of Occupation, and his discharge. Wrenched from college and denied the Army Specialized Training Program's promise of individual choice in assignment, students were thrust into the infantry. Harrison's memoir describes training in the Ninety-fourth Infantry Division in the U.S., their first combat holding action at Lorient, France, and the division's race to join Patton's Third Army, where Harrison's company was decimated and he was wounded while attacking the Siegfried Line. Reassigned to the U.S. Group Control Council, he had a unique opportunity to observe both the highest echelons in military government and the ordinary soldiers as Allied troops occupied Berlin. This veteran's memoir reveals all aspects of military life and sings of those valorous but ordinary soldiers who achieved the victory. A. Cleveland Harrison is an emeritus professor of theatre at Auburn University.Table of Contents Cover/Title Page/Copyright/Dedication Download
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Prefacepp. xi-xiv Download
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Introductionpp. xv-xxii Download
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Reluctant Draftee: Little Rock, Arkansaspp. 1-20 Download
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Basic Trainee: Fort Benning, Georgiapp. 21-54 Download
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University Student: Oxford, Mississippipp. 55-77 Download
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Rifleman-Clerk: Camp McCain, Mississippipp. 78-110 Download
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Army Transient: The Queen Elizabeth and Wiltshire, Englandpp. 111-131 Download
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Switchboard Operator: Lorient, Francepp. 132-180 Download
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Combat Rifleman: Wehingen and Orscholz, Germanypp. 181-210 Download
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Patient and Replacement: France and Englandpp. 211-248 Download
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Clerk-Typist: Versailles, Francepp. 249-265 Download
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Mail Clerk-Draftsman: Frankfurt am Main, Germanypp. 266-285 Download
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Message Center Chief: Berlin, Germanypp. 286-330 Download
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Returning Veteran: Little Rock, Arkansaspp. 331-346 Download
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Afterwordpp. 347-355 Download
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Additional InformationISBN9781621038498Related ISBN(s)9781578066155MARC RecordDownload OCLC705763061Launched on MUSE2012-12-20LanguageEnglishOpen AccessNoProject MUSE MissionProject MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves.
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