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One Veteran's Story a Memoir of World War II (Hardcover)
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One Veteran's Story a Memoir of World War II (Hardcover)
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On the left on the dust cover is General Maurice Rose, who
commanded the 3rd Armored Division. As was customary, two combat
teams were traveling on parallel routes as we approached Paderborn,
the headquarters of the Waffen SS, the elite troops of the German
Wehrmacht. General Rose was crisscrossing the terrain from one
column to the other when he encountered an isolated pocket of
Waffen SSers, who prepared to take him captive. As he removed his
shoulder holster with its 45 caliber weapon, they machine gunned
him and killed him which was a sad loss for the division. Several
days later on March 31st, 1944 we met the Ninth Army which had come
through Holland and closed I the "Ruhr Pocket" thus sealing off a
large German industrial area. There is a hospital in Denver
Colorado erected in honor of General Rose. In the middle is
Brigadier General Doyle O Hickey, the Combat A commander and my
combat commander. He replaced General Rose as division commander
and shortly thereafter was replaced by General Grow, When President
Truman called General Douglas MacArthur home during the Korean War,
Hickey was his deputy. On the right is Brigadier General Boudinot,
the commander of Combat Command B. As for Liz Fern, when I thought
about publishing these letters, I got out all of the negatives that
I had had developed-the Germans had no photograph paper to print
them-and had them all printed and found that I had a lot of photos
of her so I went about trying to contact her. I finally was
contacted by one of her grandsons who told me that she and her
husband had gotten back together after they came home from the war
and had six children. Several years prior to that she had gone to a
doctor''s office seeking medical attention and died in his office
while waiting to see him. Britt returned to Indiana, took a
refresher course at the University of Indiana and then did general
practice in Montezuma, Indiana for many years.
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