A Private in the Texas ArmyAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 30 December 2021
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Sulphur Springs native Frank Webster Pearce was a soldier in Texas own 36th Infantry Division and the 111th Engineer Combat Battalion. The Divisions story has been told before, but never from start to finish by a combat engineer, whose footprints stirred the sands of three invasion beaches, wallowed through the mud, and trudged in the snow of every battle. From training in the United States to the wars end in Austria, Pearce chronicled it all. With the combination of diary, numerous letters home, and official division reports, this is the most complete look ever produced on the 111th Engineers and their war against Hitlers Germany. This is a primary account written daily as the events unfolded. It was the war years. Here you find out how to properly bury a man in the water soaked Italian soil, a fool proof way to smuggle liquor from the US to the soldiers overseas, the foul stench of death reeking across the battlefield, and the beauty of exploding artillery shells in the night sky. These are his thoughts and letters as he wrote them-raw and unfiltered.
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