About the Author
During WW II, 1st Lt. Edward Rasmussen served in Military Intelligence as a translator of Japanese at Washington Document C enter. After the war, he resumed his career as insurance broker. In time, he increasingly served as insurance consultant to Japanese corporations doing business in the U.S. Since retirement, he writes military history and does translation for other military historians. His recent book, "Hell's Anvil, the Forging of a Fanatic Fighter", is available from Xlibris Corp. Based on his translation of a Japanese platoon leader's journal of fighting on Luzon, P.1., it includes eyewitness accounts of the action from the American side.
