Always a Soldier But Never G.I.: A World War II Soldier's Personal Journey

LETTERS TO THE HOME FRONT: MEMOIRS OF A WORLD WAR II SOLDIER THE YEAR WAS 1942 AND THE COUNTRY WAS UNITED in the fight against Germany and Japan. On the home front, all industry was mobilized for war, and the draft boards were collecting young men to join the armed forces. Emmett Lang, a naive 20-year-old, wanted to be a soldier. But even after scoring a nearly perfect score in the Army General Classification Test, he was sent to infantry basic training. Despite this inauspicious beginning...