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G Company's War
1998
Overview
A unique account of combat in World War II provides parallel
day-to-day records of the same events as seen by two men in the
same company, one an enlisted man, one an
officer
G Company’s War is the story of a World War II
rifle company in Patton’s Third Army as detailed in the
journals of S/Sgt. Bruce Egger and Lt. Lee M. Otts, both of G
Company, 328th Regiment, 26th infantry Division. Bruce Egger
arrived in France in October 1944, and Lee Otts arrived in
November. Both fought for G Company through the remainder of the
war. Otts was wounded seriously in March 1945 and experienced an
extended hospitalization in England and the United States. Both
men kept diaries during the time they were in the service, and
both expanded the diaries into full-fledged journals shortly
after the war. These are the voices of ordinary
soldiers—the men who did the fighting—not the
generals and statesmen who viewed events from a distance. Most
striking is how the two distinctly different personalities
recorded the combat experience. For the serious-minded Egger, the
war was a grim ordeal; for Otts, with his sunny disposition, the
war was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, sometimes even fun. Each
account is accurate in its own right, but the combination of the
two into a single, interwoven story provides a broader
understanding of war and the men caught up in it. Historian Paul
Roley has interspersed throughout the text helpful overviews and
summaries that place G Company's activities in the larger context
of overall military operations in Europe. In addition, Roley
notes what happened to each soldier mentioned as wounded in
action or otherwise removed from the company and provides an
appendix summarizing the losses suffered by G Company. The total
impact of the work is to describe the reality of war in a
frontline infantry company.
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Subject
/ History
/ Personal narratives, American
/ Soldiers
/ Soldiers-United States-Biography
/ United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 328th. G Company
/ United States.-Army-Biography
/ United States.-Army.-Infantry Regiment, 328th.-Company G-History
/ Western
/ World War, 1939-1945-Campaigns-Western Front
ISBN
9780817309787, 0817309780
