"Other Clay" is a survivor's account of World War II infantry
combat, told by a front-line officer whose 116th Infantry Regiment
landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day and fought its way across Europe to
the Elbe.
Charles R. Cawthon joined the Virginia National Guard in
1940--to avoid being drafted and to spend his expected one year of
service in officer training. When America entered the war, his
division was among the first shipped out to England, where they
spent two years preparing to spearhead the largest amphibious
military operation in history.
On the beaches of Normandy, on June 6, 1944, the U.S. Army
suffered its heaviest casualties since Gettysburg. The losses were
greatest among the infantry companies that led the assault, and
Cawthon describes firsthand the furious and deathly chaos of the
daylong battle to get off the beach and up the heights. Reduced by
casualties to half its preinvasion strength, Cawthon's regiment
still managed to fight off German counterattacks and engage in an
all-out pursuit across France before the Germans counterattacked
again at the Ardennes forest.
Thoughtful, candid, and revealing, Cawthon's memoir is a deeply
felt and carefully recollected study of men confronting the face of
death--their fear, their courage, their hunger and exhaustion,
their loyalty to one another, and their miraculous and unreasoning
ability to go one more step, one more day, one more mile.
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