Pre-Owned Until The Final Gun (Paperback) 0759674868 9780759674868

Just after Pearl Harbor a soldier "stepped out the door to work" for family, country, and God.? The job took him from a dairy barn in Tennessee to the ovens of Dachau.? Along the way he wore his young wife's picture upside-down on his dog tags so he could see her face. In a blacked-out anti-aircraft trailer, drinking coffee through the night to stay awake until radar signaled "Enemy planes," he wrote letters describing how the 411th AAA Gun Battalion got seasick on the Queen Elizabeth, followed paratroopers into Normandy, fought off the Luftwaffe at the breakout, helped to liberate Paris at a fire-storm at the Seine, defended the bridge over which Patton went north to Bastogne, guarded his headquarters in Luxembourg and Germany, and at war's end at the Czech border were sent to de-louse and shepherd the pitiful survivors of Hitler's first death camp. "Until the Final Gun" , their battalion motto, lends a title to their story of loyalty, fear, loneliness, compassion, and G.I. humor as day by endless day ordinary decent Americans bravely helped to make history.