Dangerous Assignment - An Artillery Forward Observer in World War II

Informationen zum Autor William B. Hanford served as a forward observer in World War II with the U.S. 103rd Infantry Division of the Seventh Army. A retired teacher, he lives in Howell, Michigan. Klappentext Rare memoir of a risky job performed by relatively few troops. Honest and observant narrative describes the good, bad, and ugly of the war. Covers World War II's closing months in eastern France and Germany. Zusammenfassung Bill Hanford had one of the U.S. Army’s riskiest jobs in World War II: artillery forward observer. Tasked with calling in heavy fire on the enemy, FOs accompanied infantrymen into combat, crawled into no-man’s-land, and ascended hills and ridges to find their targets--all while the enemy singled them out with a vengeance.

Product details

• Authors: William B Hanford, William B. Hanford, HANFORD WILLIAM B
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.04.2008
• EAN: 9780811734851
• ISBN: 978-0-8117-3485-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 227 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Stackpole Military History; Stackpole Military History Series; Stackpole Military History
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book