Recon Trooper

Hugh Warren West is a highly decorated combat veteran of World War II. Following the war, he resumed his career as a school teacher in Ontario, California, and now lives in Sherman Oaks, California. John Scura, author and longtime television talk-variety show producer, was managing editor of the martial arts magazine Fighting Stars. He lives in Los Angeles.

• Table of ContentsPreface ( John Scura)      HATTEN—The Ordeal      ARIZONA—Family Beginnings      CAMP CHAFFEE, ARKANSAS—Basic Training      TENNESSEE—Advanced Training, Field Exercises      KENTUCKY—Further Advanced Training, War Games      NEW YORK TO MARSEILLES—The Difficult Atlantic Crossing      RHONE VALLEY TO ALSACE—Initial Fighting      BARR—Intense Battle      TO THE RHINE—Initial Attempt, and Failure to Cross      THE VOSGES—Fighting a German Counterattack      HATTEN—The American Stalingrad      NANCY—Hospitalized in the Rear      STRASBOURG—Allied Advance Renewed      ACROSS THE RHINE—Fighting through the Last Barrier      CREUSSEN—Another Deadly German Counterattack      MOOSBURG—Freeing Thousands of Allied POWs      THE DANUBE—Racing into Austria, VE Day      SOUTHERN EUROPE—Postwar Military Details      EDINBURGH—Stationing in Scotland      AMERICA—Home and Wife      EPILOGUE: THE RETURN—1990 Tour of ETO Battlefields      Index