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I feel that I am qualified to make the above evaluation, as I spent almost four years in the U.S. Army as an infantryman (1st gunner on a caliber 30 light machine gun). I was with the 66th Infantry Regiment, assigned to Patton’s Army, as infantry support to one of his tank units. We fought through France, Germany, and halfway through Austria before the war ended.
I found Mr. Sandlin’s article especially interesting because I had just finished writing my own WWII memoirs–a three-hundred page account of my war and combat experiences. I did not necessarily write this for publication but so that my children would know about a significant period in their father’s life before they arrived on the scene. And I found all of what Mr. Sandlin wrote concerning combat and its effect on the soldier to be very similar to what I had lived through and wrote about.
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