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As a twenty-three-year-old veterinarian, William W. Putney joined the Marine Corps at the height of World War II. He commanded the Third Dog Platoon during the battle for Guam and later served as chief veterinarian and commanding officer of the War Dog Training School, where he helped train former pets for war in the Pacific. After the war, he fought successfully to have USMC war dogs returned to their civilian owners. Always Faithful is Putney s celebration of the four-legged soldiers that he both commanded and followed. It is a tale of immense courage as well as of incredible...

Much has been written of the infantry and the cavalry during the Civil War, but little attention has been paid the artillery. Through the battles of Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge in 1863 and the Atlanta Campaign of 1864 and with General Sherman s forces on the famous March to the Sea, the acts of a courageous fighting group are vividly recounted in "Behind the Guns: The History of Battery I, 2nd Regiment, Illinois Light Artillery." Originally published in 1965 in a limited edition, this regimental history of a light artillery unit was written by three of its soldiers, including the...