War Makes Men of Boys: A Soldier's World War II

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Prologue 1. Paul Fussell, The Boys’ Crusade (New York: Random House, 2003), 6–7. 2. Robert Kotlowitz, Before Their Time (New York: Anchor Books, 1997), 4. 3. Fussell, Boys’ Crusade, 7–8. 4. The Oxford Companion to American Military History, ed. John Whiteclay Chambers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 849. 5. Glen H. Elder Jr., “War Mobilization and the Life Course: A Cohort of World War II Veterans,” Sociological Forum 2 (1987): 453. 6. Robert J. Havighurst, John W. Baughman, Ernest W. Burgess, and Walter H. Eaton, The American Veteran Back Home: A Study of Veteran Readjustment (New York: Longsman, Green, 1951), 188. 7. Elder, War Mobilization and the Life Course. 8. Ibid., 463. 9. Quotations from my father are from the following sources in the family archives and are cited in the text: (1) correspondence with his parents and daughters; (2) a handwritten diary dated 1945; (3) a 56-page memoir in typescript written in the 1980s; (4) “In the Image of Man: What Religion Is All About or at Least What Religion Ought to Be All About,” an unpublished 191page novel in typescript from 1988; and (5) notes written after his retirement. 10. See, for example, Bill Adler with Tracy Quinn McLennan, eds., World War II Letters (New York: St. Martin’s, 2002); and Andrew Carroll, ed., War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars (New York: Washington Square, 2001). 11. Herbert J. Obermayer, Soldiering for Freedom (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005). 12. Studs Terkel, “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II (New York: New Press, 1984). 13. Susan Faludi, Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man (New York: HarperCollins, 1999). 14. Debra Umberson, Death of a Parent: Transition into a New Adult Identity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). 15. Norman K. Denzin, Interpretive Biography (Newbury Park, California: Sage, 1989), 13. 16. Ibid., 17. Notes H 134 H Notes to pages xix–28 17. Nick Trujillo, In Search of Naunny’s Grave: Age, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in an American Family (Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira, 2004). 18. H. Lloyd Goodall, A Need to Know: A Clandestine History of a CIA Family (Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast, 2006). Chapter one 1. Russell Freedman, Children of the Great Depression (New York: Clarion, 2005), 14. 2. Herman J. Obermayer, Soldiering for Freedom: A GI’s Account of World War II (College Station: Texas A&M University Press), 12. 3. Ibid., 50. 4. Don Pfeiffer, IRTC Handbook: Camp Blanding, Florida (Camp Blanding, Florida : Special Service IRTC, n.d.), 5. 5. Ernie Pyle, “The God-Damned Infantry,” Reporting America at War, PBS, accessed November 18, 2009, www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters /pyle/infantry.html. 6. Earl Wavell, “In Praise of Infantry,” Times, April 19, 1945. 7. “Army Battle Casualties and Nonbattle Deaths in World War II,” HyperWar Foundation, accessed January 12, 2010, http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/ref /Casualties/index.html. 8. Pfeiffer, IRTC Handbook, 2. 9. Robert S. Rush, GI: The US Infantryman in World War II (Oxford: Osprey, 2003), 35. 10. Ibid, 29. 11. “Boloed” means failed to pass the marksmanship test. 12. “History,” Van Dorn Army Museum, accessed November 18, 2009, http://www .vandornmuseum.org. 13. L. M. Caulfield, Birth and Death of a World War II Army Camp—Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi, 63rd Infantry Division, accessed November 18, 2009, http://www .63rdinfdiv.com/historyvandornpage2.html. 14. Ibid. 15. Ray Wax, in “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II, by Studs Terkel (New York: New Press, 1984), 301. 16. Harris Peel, The Trail of 254 thru Blood & Fire (Gopingen, Germany: J. Kirchner, 1945), 3. 17. Ibid. 18. James E. Hatcher, Blood and Fire: With the 63rd. Infantry Division in World War II (n.p.: 63rd Infantry Division Association, 1986), 5. Chapter two 1. Of all those mentioned in my father’s letter, Mr. Brass was the only person still living whom I was able to contact. Notes to pages 28–38 H 135 2. Harris Peel, The Trail of 254 thru Blood and Fire (Gopingen, Germany: J. Kirchner , 1945). 3. James E. Hatcher, Blood and Fire: With the 63rd Infantry Division in World War II (n.p.: 63rd Infantry Division Association, 1986). 4. Ibid. 5. Stephen E. Ambrose, Citizen Soldiers (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997); Jeffrey J. Clarke and Robert Ross Smith, Riviera to the Rhine: European Theatre of Operations (Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, 2005). See also Russell Hart and Stephen Hart...