The Forgotten Battalion

About The Author: The author served with an Engineer Combat Battalion in France and Germany in the closing weeks of World War II. The battalion was attached to the Twenty-first Corps Seventh Army which participated in the battle of the Saar the battle of the Rhine and the Comar pocket (The last stand of the Germans west of the Rhine). He then spent the summer of nineteen forty five with the Army of Occupation in a small German town near Heidelberg. An obsessive writer even in those days he wrote many letters home that were destined to form the notes for this book. His letters were not about the horrors of war but about unforgettable characters amusing incidents and unusual;interactions with natives. Historical notes about the progress of the war itself are included. The author was a science teacher in California for thirty five years then retired to dedicate himself to writing. He now lives with his wife Yvonne and poodle Beau in St Petersburg Florida.