by Mitch Kaidy | 22 Sep 2006 | Commentary
As below-the-radar as the 87th Infantry Division was among the glamorous units of the U.S. Third Army in World War II, it was actually a highly-acclaimed division. But it takes some digging to reveal the numerous commendations it received. The 14,000-member unit,...
by Mitch Kaidy | 22 Sep 2006 | News
If you really want to know what World War II was like for those who did most of the fighting and dying, don’t bother with the famous “The Greatest Generation.”
Read this book.
Of the scores of books I’ve read about World War II since being discharged from the infantry in 1945, two stand out.
by Mitch Kaidy | 10 Dec 2005 | Commentary
Whether he scanned the mail and pocketed it in his foxhole with artillery screaming around or snow raining down, or in a barn with bullets whizzing past, and whatever information it contained, mail from home was the oxygen of an infantryman’s life. Even when they were...
by Mitch Kaidy | 22 Aug 2005 | Commentary
Bastogne was under siege and effectively surrounded. The Germans knew it, and the Americans knew it. Catching thousands of green 106th and veteran 28th Infantry Division troops off guard, the Germans swiftly poured a deluge of terror and death into the Ardennes Forest...
by Mitch Kaidy | 19 May 2004 | Personal Accounts
All of us who trained in the Infantry in World War II — every mother’s son of us — can attest to the discipline that was drilled into us. Today I look back and wonder whether it could have been otherwise. But then? Well, then, you couldn’t have...
