How To Survive Combat As Point Man If You're Lucky... And Lose Friends If They're Not

Merriam Press Military Monograph MM22 (Eighth Edition, 2012). The author's experiences while stationed at Camp Croft, South Carolina, for basic training as an infantry replacement, and in infantry combat as a soldier private, scout and point man with the 30th Infantry Division in Normandy, Northern Europe and Germany from mid-July through early October 1944, when the author was seriously wounded and evacuated to England. Excellent, sometimes humorous account of what it was really like to be a foot soldier in the months following the Normandy invasion. 31 photos and illustrations.