Ordinary Americans in the armed services and at home face the poignancy and the raw emotions of wartime. In this, the third volume of The Soldiers Trilogy, members of the Henderson and Martin families put on military uniforms to defend their country after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, We follow them through training and watch some of the family at war in the Pacific. The major characters, however, serve in Europe. There through the eyes of a foot soldier, an airman, a paratrooper, a ranking officer at Supreme Headquarters, and a spy behind enemy lines we see preparations and training for the assault on Hitler''s Fortress Europe, the carrying out of the assault on D-Day, and its aftermath.
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John Bacon was born in Baltimore and grew up there. He graduated from Georgetown University with a Master's degree in history and was elected to membership in Phi Alpha Theta, National History Honor Society. He served a three-year tour of duty in the Twenty-Ninth Infantry Division, Maryland National Guard. He then served in the Department of State Foreign Service with seven years duty at embassies overseas, after which he worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as analyst, writer, editor. He established the intelligence unit of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the crowning achievement of which was to play a leading role in the destruction of the French Connection. He worked for DEA until his retirement from government service. In retirement, among other things, he established the intelligence unit of the Maryland State Police and worked as editor at the Space Station Program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He is married and the father of four sons. He is a member of the Society of the Cincinnati.
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John Bacon, Eager Street, Jane Widdicomb, Aunt Helen, Uncle Harry, Tom Martin, Omaha Beach, Pearl Harbor, Frank Rafferty, Aunt Molly, Fourth Division, General Bull, Miss Widdicomb, West Point, Red Cross, General Bradley, United States, Fort Benning, Mary Henderson, William Henderson, New York, Jim Garvey, Harry Martin, Army Air Corps, Sergeant Gray Browse Sample Pages:
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