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G Companys War: Two Personal Accounts of the Campaigns in Europe, 19441945
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A unique account of combat in World War II provides parallel daytoday records of the same events as seen by two men in the same company, one an enlisted man, one an officerG Companys War is the story of a World War II rifle company in Pattons Third Army as detailed in the journals of S/Sgt. Bruce Egger and Lt. Lee M. Otts, both of G Company, 328th Regiment, 26th infantry Division.Bruce Egger arrived in France in October 1944, and Lee Otts arrived in November. Both fought for G Company through the remainder of the war. Otts was wounded seriously in March 1945 and experienced an extended hospitalization in England and the United States. Both men kept diaries during the time they were in the service, and both expanded the diaries into fullfledged journals shortly after the war.These are the voices of ordinary soldiersthe men who did the fightingnot the generals and statesmen who viewed events from a distance. Most striking is how the two distinctly different personalities recorded the combat experience. For the seriousminded Egger, the war was a grim ordeal; for Otts, with his sunny disposition, the war was a onceinalifetime experience, sometimes even fun. Each account is accurate in its own right, but the combination of the two into a single, interwoven story provides a broader understanding of war and the men caught up in it.Historian Paul Roley has interspersed throughout the text helpful overviews and summaries that place G Companys activities in the larger context of overall military operations in Europe. In addition, Roley notes what happened to each soldier mentioned as wounded in action or otherwise removed from the company and provides an appendix summarizing the losses suffered by G Company. The total impact of the work is to describe the reality of war in a frontline infantry company.
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