Unknown Soldiers
Reliving World War II in Europe
Reliving World War II in Europe
by Joseph E. Garland
This long-anticipated memoir of the Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon
in the 157th Colorado Regiment of the 45th Infantry National Guard Division
follows the Allied invasion of Italy in September 1943. Joseph E. Garland,
author of over 20 books and a venerable “old soldier” from the 45th,
started writing the memoir in 1943 when he was 20, not long after taking a leave
of absence from Harvard to pick up a gun, join the Infantry,
and go off to Europe to fight the Nazis.
The book includes the many stories and perspectives of others in his I & R platoon,
following the path of the 45th through the Sicily campaign, then on to Salerno in Italy,
the winter campaign in the mountains, then Anzio, southern France, Germany and
on to the liberation of Dachau a few days before VE day.
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Cover photo by Dominick Trubia. Intelligence & Reconnaissance scouts Bob Richardson, George Ruder and Bob Coleman live it up a few days prior to the Allied invasion of southern France from Italy, August 1944. In less than a week, Ruder would be machine-gunned to death in an ambush in the Rhône Valley; a few weeks later, Coleman would be killed by a shell in Rambervillers, near the Franco-German border.