Finalist, 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards (Category: Military)] Finalist, 2016 National Indie Excellence Awards (Category: Military Non-Fiction)] South Carolina servicemen made an exceptional and early contribution in WW II, when in February 1942 a group of them, all products of the state's four pre-war ROTC programs, were assigned to the 32nd "Red Arrow" Infantry Division (Michigan-Wisconsin National Guard). In this odd and expedient pairing, and in one of the earliest Infantry units to be ordered overseas after the Pearl Harbor attack, they participated in the first offensive waged...

James Pierce Senn, a 33 year old Laurens County, S.C., grocery clerk, was inducted into the Army in 1942. With active combat raging in North Africa, he was one of many sent as a replacement for the losses at Kasserine Pass. Little did he know that his journey with the 34th ("Red Bulls") Infantry Division, as a Medical Battalion ambulance wheel-man and sometimes litter-bearer, would last the next two and a half years and take him from Tunisia to the very northernmost reaches of the Italian "boot." The 162-page journal Senn left behind for generations to follow provides a vivid travelogue...