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...
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, h...
