TABLE OF CONTENTS

• FOREWORD: BY LEE HATFIELD, JR., SON OF PFC. LEE E. HATFIELD, 3rd INFANTRY DIVISION, 30th REGIMENT, 2nd BATTALION, Co. F & Hq. Co.

• FOREWORD : BY MIKE WELLS, SON OF PFC FRANKLIN WELLS, JR., COMPANY B, 1^ST. BATTALION, 30^TH REGIMENT, 3^RD INFANTRY_

• FOREWORD: BY LEW PERGAMENT, SON OF 1^ST. LT. HYMAN PERGAMENT, 3OTH REGIMENT, 3^RD INFANTRY_

• FOREWORD: BY TIM CORNISH, SON OF PFC. ROBERT E. CORNISH, COMPANY K, 1^ST. BATTALION, 15^TH REGIMENT, 3^RD INFANTRY

• IN THE BEGINNING

• HITLER INVADES POLAND

• CAMP ROBERTS – CALIFORNIA

• BIG BAND

• TRAINING AT CAMP HOWZE, TEXAS

• SHIPPING OUT

• CROSSING THE ATLANTIC OCEAN

• ENTERING THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA – OCTOBER 1943

• GERMAN BOMBERS

• BIZERTE - NORTH AFRICA

• A CONVOY INLAND

• HARASSING HIKES AND DETAILS

• “GOOF BALL” BUDDYS

• FAST FORWARD

• NAPLES, ITALY

• NOVEMBER   1943

• POZZUOLI - ITALY

• ANZIO BEACHHEAD – JANUARY 1944

• “ DEAR JOHN "

• FEBRUARY   1944

• MARCH 1944 - STALEMATE

• JU88 BOMBERS

• “ OPERATION MR. GREEN “

• ANZIO BREAKOUT

• ABOUT MAY 25^TH 1944

• ROME – JUNE 1944

• GARRISON OF ROME DREAM ENDS

• MAKING A FAKE LANDING

• CALLED TO HEADQUARTERS FOR INTERROGATION

• PART  2

• SUMMER  OF  ’44 - POZZUOLI, ITALY

• “TRAINING FOR THE LANDING ON THE SOFT UNDERBELLY OF EUROPE”

• BACK TO THE POZZUOLI TRAINING

• THE INVASION OF SOUTHERN FRANCE - August  1944

• THE PATROL – 2^ND DAY

• TAKING THE PRISONERS TO HDQ (HEADQUARTERS)

• THE SOFT UNDERBELLY(some belly) -  DAY  3

• SEPTEMBER 1944 - A LITTLE FRENCH FARM

• MASSACRE

• MINEN - MINEN

• SPOTTER PLANE SHOT DOWN

• EARLY SEPTEMBER – 1944 - BATTLE FOR BESANCON

• A LITTLE “TIFF ”

• THE MEURTHE RIVER AND THE VOSGES MOUNTAINS September  & October 1944

• WINTER COMES TO THE VOSGES MOUNTAINS – OCTOBER 1944

• NEW BATTLE LOOMING

• “MT. MOONBEAM"

• POTATO MASHER HILL

• “CHICKENSHIT” FRENCH FARMER

• SWEEPING MINES – ST. MARIE

• NICE FARM LADY

• R&R IN ENGLAND

• TERRAIN CHANGED

• TO STRASBOURG AND THE RHINE RIVER - November 20 – 28, 1944

• NEXT GERMAN TOWN

• STRASBOURG

• FIRST JET AIRPLANE

• FIRST MASS

• “ Up and at 'em” BACK AT OBERHAUSBERGEN

• NEW BATTLE AHEAD

• KAYSERBERG

• NEW COMBAT BOOTS

• KABOOM

• ANOTHER STALEMATE

• SIGOLSHEIM

• PURPLE HEART

• “Return To Unit”

• BACK TO THE COLMAR BATTLEFRONT

• FLASHBACK TO GRENDLEBRUCH

• BACK TO COLMAR

• FLASHBACK TO SIGOLSHIEM

• NANCY

• SOLDIER'S MEDAL

• SERGEANT'S STRIPES

• DER VATERLAND HUMP OFF!

• SALZBURG, AUSTRIA –May 1945

• ALPS

• May 12, 1944 - CONFIRMATION

• The hills are alive with the sound of music. I made it this far. Now it's Confirmation!!

• HUNTING NAZI’S

• CIVILIANS SURRENDERING WEAPONS

• FISHING WITH TNT

• BLUSHING FRAULIEN

• BRAUNFELS & WETZLAR

• PAREE

• LE HARVE

• CAMP KILMER

• ADJUSTING TO CIVILIAN LIFE

• ORDERED A NEW CHEVROLET

• FARMING

• SAD NEWS

• LUCKY

• NEW LAND

• TIME FOR FUN

• PTSD?

• INDEX OF PHOTOGRAPHS

• Cpl Scott Shank's Obituary

• Cpl Scott Shank's Headstone

• Cpl Scott Shank's V letter 1944