'44 Foxholes in France: An Almost Perfect War - Book Two (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781495306433)

In 1943 while attending Oberlin College, the author was drafted and assigned to the Infantry. In April 1944, after 13 weeks of basic training at Ft. McClellan, Alabama he shipped out to England, then crossed the English Channel to Normandy with a group of replacements for casualties in the first days of the invasion. He fought in a rifle company in the 90th Division, Third Army, until he was wounded near Metz, France. While recuperating in the States, the atomic bombs ended the war. After earning a BA in Psychology and an MS in Broadcast Media, both on the GI BIll, he became a TV writer/producer and in 1952 shared a Peabody Award for The Johns Hopkins Science Review, the first science series shown on American network TV. He later was production manager and art director at a Rochester, NY TV station, then administrator for the Rochester City Schools' televised instruction department. He also wrote a regular science and nature column for Rochester's City Newspaper, and book reviews for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. He recently has written the book and lyrics for a Broadway style musical featuring computers and virtual reality, and is working on the four remaining books in An Almost Perfect War, the series title for '44 Foxholes in France.