A Reluctant Hero's Footsteps

In 2011, By Chance I Discovered The After-action Reports Of The 329th Infantry Regiment, My Father’s World War Ii Unit, On The Internet. An Idea Was Born: Use These To Reconstruct My Father’s Path In Europe. I Would Take My Three Children, Richard, Mary, And Stephen, On A Trip To Retrace Those Footsteps. This Book Is About Our Travels, But It Is Much More. It Documents The Life Of A Man And His Family, The History Of A Unit, And How, Through Research And Luck, We Were Able Piece Together The Story. As Far As Possible, I Tell The Tale Of My Father’s Life With Pictures And Artifacts From That Life. In Parallel, I Relate The History Of The Unit He Joined In Combat, Inserting Pictures Where I Can. In Fitting All The Records Together With The Trip Itself, I Discovered My Father In New Ways And Built A Memory For My Children. In An Appendix, I Give You A Guide As To How You Can Do This For Your Veterans As Well.