Richard Courtney, Ruth Eisenberg, Lawrence O. (Professor of Law and Public Health Gostin, Lt Col William A. Foley Jr
Basing this memoir on his original World War II diary, Pfc. Richard D. Courtney tells what it was like to be a combat infantryman in America's biggest war. In a day-to-day account of what he experienced in combat, Courtney gives the history of his antitank platoon - part of the 104th Infantry Regiment of the 16th Infantry Division - as it fought from Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the end of the war in Czechoslovakia. He tells what happened to his comrades, and like war correspondent Ernie Pyle, he gives the names and hometowns of his buddies. For Courtney, the personal war began at...
Basing this memoir on his original World War II diary, Pfc. Richard D. Courtney tells what it was like to be a combat infantryman in America's biggest...