Boy Soldier: Coming of Age During World War II
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...a fascinating account of an 18-year-old rifleman who joined K Company, 63rd Infantry Regiment during some of the 6th Infantry Division's bitterest fighting...Read this story by putting yourself in the place of this patriotic, dedicated youth who was motivated to perform his duty in this battle hardened rifle company...Russ McLogan was a member of the few among millions of soldiers--the combat infantrymen who spearheaded the war--dragging along behind them the huge, often cumbersome superstructure of the reat of the Army. [This] is the story of the elite, the combat infantry, and he was one of those who survived to tell us about it. Colonel Arndt L. Mueller, USA (RETD) 3rd Battalion Commander during World War II
On April 14, 1945, Russell E. McLogan joined Company K of the 63rd Infantry...one of the many youngsters coming into the company...to fill the void left by casualties. Many of these boys, hardly out of high school, were soon shot. McLogan himslf got it on June 21, but fortunately survived to return home, have a family and in retirement write a history of his war experiences....He is a born researcher, a peruser of archives, an historian. John L. Munschaer, K Company Platoon Leader and Author in World War II Cavalcade: An Offer I Couldn't Refuse, Sunflower University Press, 1996
Many people have been aspiring writers, but few have become real writers. Russell McLogan is a real writer. John Klein, Publisher, Community Plus+ Magazine upon awarding him first prize for the best short story in the 1996 fiction contest.
Book Description
It is said that in order to completely understand a man you should probe the world as it existed when he was 19 or 20 years old--at the moment he became mature and autonomous as a man. Russell McLogan has done just that in this well-written autobiography. Drafted out of college at age 18 in 1944, he was trained as a rifleman and then sent to the Philippines as an infantry replacement. There he joined the battle hardened 6th Infantry Division on the Shimbu Line near Manila. Wounded in combat in northern Luzon, he spent 89 days in Army hospitals on Luzon and Leyte. When the atomic bomb abruptly ended the war, he was returned to duty just in time to sail off to Korea where he served in the Army of Occupation. Boy Soldier is about a young man's coming of age during this period of tremendous historical change. It includes much well-researched history of the Army's replacement training system, the Liberation of the Philippines, the dropping of the atomic bombs, the American-Russian occupation of Korea, and the Army's post-war demobilization--the people, places, and events that shaped a young life. Although written in a scholarly mode with endnotes, bibliography and index, it is very readable with the humor, violence, sexual situations and sometimes raw language as it actually happpened. Text is supplemented with 72 illustrations and 15 maps.
Boy Soldier: Coming of Age During World War II
Boy Soldier: Coming of Age During World War II,Russell E. McLogan,Terrus Press,0966344405,1926-,Biography,Biography & Autobiography / Military,Campaigns,General,History,History / Military / World War II,McLogan, Russell E.,,Military,Military - World War II,Philippines,Sociology,Soldiers,United States,World War, 1939-1945,Army,Biography / Autobiography,Korea,McLogan, Russell E,McLogan, Russell E.,Military History - World War Ii,Personal narratives, American,Purple Heart
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