The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II

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by Glass, Charles


  Hughes, Charles Evans, 4–5

  Hughes, Major General E. S., 271

  Huie, William Bradford, xii, xiv, xv

  In Death’s Dark Shadow: A Soldier’s Story (Barkley), 127

  Italy, xvii–xviii, 188, 192, 204

  James, Brigadier General G. W. B., 19

  Jarvis, Frank, 48

  Jedburghs, 186

  Jenkins, Simon, 308

  John, Augustus, 293

  Jones, Jess W., 231, 234, 236, 239–44, 248–49

  Kash, R. C., 303–4

  Keats, John, 308

  Keegan, John, xx

  Kelton, Harry B., 218, 234, 269

  Kibbey, Sam, 136

  Klick, Eric, 265

  Knight, George Wilson, 292, 294

  Koonz, Kenny, 128

  Kuhn, Lawrence, 103, 209, 211

  Kviatek, Frank, 129, 260

  Lane Gang, xviii

  Lassus Saint-Geniès, Jean-Pierre de, 150, 152

  Laureta, Frank, 181–83

  Lear, Lieutenant General Ben, 271

  Lebeis, Bertram M., 233

  Lee, Lieutenant General John C. H., 264–65

  Leeds, England, 291–92

  Lévy, Ferdinand, 160, 161, 163, 174

  Lewis, Norman, 63, 110, 121

  Lewis, Ron, 82

  Liberty, xii

  Linacre, Bob, 50

  Lindsay, Thomas, 307

  Lockett, Private, 31–32

  Lockhart, Vincent M., 206

  Loire Disciplinary Training Center, 251–54, 261–73

  London, England, 288, 291

  crime in, 290

  deserters in, 290–91

  Lovett, Brigadier General Ralph B., 268

  Ludendorff, General Erich, 5

  Lyons, France, 182–83, 184–86, 192–94, 201, 226

  MacDonald, Charles B., xvii, 257

  Mackie, Mr. and Mrs., 287

  MacKinnon, George E., 233, 234

  Manning, William T., 5

  Manual of Instruction for Medical Advisory Boards, 5

  Marshall, General George C., 57, 69–70, 97, 190

  Mathey, Ferdinand, 172–73, 175–77, 243

  Maton, Richard, 160

  Mauldin, Bill, 130

  McAuliffe, General Anthony, 276

  McBride, Major General Horace Logan, 190–91

  McCullough, Maxie, 286

  McKenzie, William H., III, 180–83, 184

  McLean, Allan Campbell, 44–45

  McRobert, Eldon R., 218–19, 231

  Meacham, C. Alex, 304–5

  Milice (French militia), 171–72, 185, 193

  Mills, Freddie, 289

  Mitchell, Lieutenant, 93, 100, 118

  Montélimar Battle Square, 201

  Montgomery, General Bernard Law “Monty,” 21, 22, 29, 35–37, 39, 96–98

  Moorehead, Alan, 14, 15, 34, 35, 64, 109

  Morison, Samuel Eliot, 138

  Moulin, Jean, 193

  Murphy, Audie, ix, 221

  Mussolini, Benito, 192

  Mustafa Detention Barracks, 44, 49–50, 53, 71–84, 93, 96, 101, 295

  Naples, Italy, 62–64

  Nelson, Don, 135

  New York Times, xviii, 6, 95

  Norris, Jack K., 197

  Northern Review, 292

  Nusbaum, Adjutant General Norman B., 270

  O’Brien, Robert L., 236

  O’Daniel, Major General John W. “Iron Mike,” 204

  Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 178, 180, 182, 183, 184–86, 188, 189, 191, 227, 238, 272, 312

  Office of War Information (OWI), 8, 180

  O’Hare, General Joseph James, 190–91

  O’Leary, Adjutant General A. E., 267

  Operational Groups, 180, 184, 186

  Louise, 178–83, 184

  Operation Dragoon, 133–39, 201–2

  Owen, Eugene T., 299

  Packard, Reynolds, 62–63, 67–68, 123

  Paris, France, xviii, 196, 199–200, 296–97

  deserters in, 277–78, 297

  gangs in, 279–81

  Whitehead in, 273, 276–82, 284, 296–98, 302, 305–6

  Parkinson, Michael, 308

  Patch, General Alexander, 140, 207

  Patton, General George S., xiii, xvii, 37, 68, 86, 195, 251, 276

  Whitehead and, 144–45

  Peck, Henry L., 253

  Pershing, General John J., 25

  Pétain, Philippe, 192

  “Piccadilly Jim,” 32

  Pickering, Staff Sergeant, 47, 50, 71, 77–79

  Plunkett, Robert W., 231, 234

  Poletti, Charles, 63

  Pons, Paul, 153

  Porter, John D., 211

  Porter, Robert D., 225

  Powers, Wayne, xiv–xv

  prostitutes, 121–22, 123

  Psychology for the Fighting Man, Prepared for the Fighting Man Himself (Committee of the National Research Council with the Collaboration of Science), xix, 10, 23, 29, 41, 44, 54, 71, 85, 92, 102, 111, 120, 126, 133, 142, 149, 156, 162, 167, 178, 184, 195, 201, 217, 229, 251, 255, 261, 274, 285, 296, 303

  Pyle, Ernie, xvii, 124–25

  Rachlin, Abraham, 17

  Radio Berlin, 256

  Read, Herbert, 293

  Reckord, Major General Milton A., 253–54, 262, 265

  Reigle, Robert, 103–4, 106, 109, 134, 135, 137, 138, 149, 151, 161, 170, 173, 178, 209–11

  Rennie, Gordon, 93, 112, 114–16, 118, 311

  Resnick, Maxwell, 231

  Reynaud, Gaston, 157–59, 161, 164–65, 176–77

  Richardson, Delmar, 68

  Rickerson, Roy, 180–83, 184, 186, 188, 189, 192, 242

  Rigby, Ray, 75, 76

  Robertson, Major General Walter Melville, 128, 144

  Robinson, Thomas, 265–66

  Rockman, Abe, 188

  Rommel, General Erwin, 14, 29, 32–33, 35, 45

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 57, 180, 250, 273

  Four Freedoms of, 122

  Operation Dragoon and, 134

  Ropos, Truman, 137

  Runstedt, Gerd von, 258

  Russell, David F. O., 116–17

  Salomon, Louis, 157–61

  Sanchez, Pedro S., 131, 132

  Sargent, John Singer, 310

  Saunders, H. W. B., 11

  Scannell, John, 291, 308, 309

  Scannell, Josephine Higson, 308

  Scannell, Vernon (John Vernon Bain), xix–xx, 10–14, 20–22, 29–33, 35–40, 45–53, 92–93, 96–101, 111–19, 285–95, 307–11

  Argument of Kings, 308, 309

  army enlistment of, 53

  “Baptism of Fire,” 30

  birth of, 49

  Black and, 13, 38–40, 80, 92–94, 96, 98, 99, 101, 112–15

  Black’s death and, 115–16

  boxing of, 10, 13, 14, 51–53, 78, 289, 291, 293, 307, 308

  “Casualty—Mental Ward,” 294

  childhood of, 49–52

  “Compulsory Mourning,” 80, 83

  court-martial of, 294

  D-Day and, 98–101, 111–12

  death of, 311

  Denham and, 114

  desertion of, 47–49, 53, 73, 84, 93, 96, 285–91, 308–10

  Grey and, 36, 115

  imprisonment of, 49, 53, 71–84, 93, 94, 96

  jobs of, 288–89

  “Love and Courage,” 53

  marriage of, 308

  in mental asylum, 294–95

  name change of, 291

  Not Without Glory: Poets of the Second World War, 310

  Of Love and War, 310

 
onset of World War II and, 52

  “On the Run,” 293–94

  “Port of Arrival,” 20

  release from prison, 84

  “Remembering Alamein,” 31, 33

  “Remembering the Dead at Wadi Akarit,” 40

  “Robbie,” 100

  teaching of, 307–8

  “The Unknown War Poet,” 52

  “Walking Wounded,” 310–11

  wounding of, 119, 285

  Schmeidel, Werner, xviii

  Schmidt, Dana Adam, xviii

  Schwerdfeger, Roy L., 131, 132

  Scruby, William, 158–60, 163, 170, 173, 183, 238, 245

  death of, 210

  Sedloff, Hal, 58, 68–70

  Serre, Maurice and Odette, 167

  Sevareid, Eric, 139, 171, 202–3

  Severs, Kenneth, 292

  Shanklin, Harry, 124, 135, 137, 139, 152, 313

  death of, 209–10

  Sharland, Timothy, 95–96

  Shaw, George Bernard, 308

  Shaw, George F., 300

  Sheean, Vincent, 122

  Sheen, Martin, xiv

  shell shock, see battle fatigue

  Shumate, Robert C., 283

  Siegfried Line Campaign, The (MacDonald), xvii

  Simmons, Allan, 103, 108, 124, 125, 150–52, 154, 169, 170, 194, 207, 209, 219–21, 223, 224, 238, 242, 272, 311, 312

  Sirkin, Lieb, 17

  Sitton, Lowell E., 218, 231, 234

  Sitwell, Osbert, 293

  Slovik, Antoinette, xii

  Slovik, Eddie, xi–xii, xiv, xv, 281

  Smith, Harold D., 56

  Smitz, William, xiv

  Spanish-American War, xiv

  Spencer, Allen C., 265

  Sprechman, David L., 300

  Stack, General Robert L., 138

  Stafford, John M., 231, 232, 234, 236

  Stars and Stripes, 130

  Steger, William, 233

  Stevenson, Alec, 93, 115–19

  Stimson, Henry L., 56–57

  Strecker, Edward, 56

  Swales, Wilf, 17

  Tepp, Herman L., 228, 230

  Thom, Sergeant, 93, 112, 118

  Thomson, Richard J., Jr., 228

  Time, 56, 95, 280

  Times of London, 290, 293, 308

  Tobler, Douglas H., 21

  To Hell and Back (Murphy), ix

  T-Patch, 149

  Trevelyan, Raleigh, 65–67

  Trévières, France, 90–91

  Trunkfield, Russell C., 234–35, 238

  Truscott, General Lucian, 204

  Turek, Frank C., 208, 223–25, 228, 230, 242, 263

  court-martial of, 230–33

  Turner, Paul S. “Timmiehaw,” 127, 130–32, 197

  Twain, Mark, xiv

  Ulio, Major General James Alexander, 187, 203

  Urquhart, Captain, 101, 112, 113, 118

  Valence, France, 151–55, 156–58, 160–61, 162, 163, 168, 201, 227

  Valette, Georges, 160

  Volle, Marcel, 160, 163

  von Lampe, Virginia, 276

  Wadi Akarit, Battle of, 37, 40, 47, 53, 80, 96, 116, 285–87, 308–9

  Walker, Major General Fred Livingood, 64, 65, 122, 123

  War Department, 3–4, 6

  William Weiss’ correspondence with, 187–88, 208, 227, 269–70

  Washington Post, 195, 200

  Waskow, Henry T., 124–25

  Weidaw, Clarence, 210, 224–27, 242, 263

  Weiss, Helen Ruth, 7

  Weiss, Jean Seidman, 7

  Weiss, Stephen James, xvi–xvii, xix, 7–9, 25, 54–58, 61, 62, 64, 66–70, 102–10, 120–25, 133–41, 149–55, 156–61, 162–66, 167–77, 178–83, 184–94, 201, 204, 206–14, 217–28, 275, 311–14

  army enlistment of, 8–9, 23, 54

  author’s meeting of, xvi

  in basic training, 54–58

  Binoche (“Auger”) and, 166, 169, 170, 172–75, 179, 181, 183, 185, 189, 242, 243, 312

  court-martial of, 230, 233–50, 270, 300, 314

  court-martial sentence of, 249–50, 251

  Cox and, 189

  Dahan family and, 192–94, 226, 312

  desertions of, 149–52, 154, 212, 214, 217–28, 269, 313

  Dickson and, 263

  in French Resistance, 169–70, 178, 181, 191, 210, 238, 243, 272, 312

  grenade incident, 222–23, 224

  guilty verdict for, 249

  health problems of, 183, 184, 194

  at Hôtel Serre, 166, 167–68

  imprisonment of, 251–54, 261–73

  Laureta and, 181–83

  Mathey and, 175–77

  as missing in action, 187–88, 208, 227

  in Operational Group Louise, 178–83

  Operation Dragoon and, 133–37

  in OSS, 178, 180, 188, 189, 191, 227, 238, 272, 312

  photograph of, 188–89

  postwar trips to France, 312–13

  prostitutes and, 121–22, 123

  psychological examinations of, 229, 230, 247–48, 272–73

  Psychological Warfare Branch and, 8, 55, 122, 180–81

  Reigle and, 103–4, 106, 109, 209–11

  release from prison, 273

  return to infantry, 191–92, 194, 208–11

  Rickerson and, 181–82, 189, 192, 242

  Santorini and, 207

  Sedloff and, 58, 68–70

  Shanklin and, 124, 135, 137, 139, 152, 313

  Shanklin’s death and, 209–10

  Simmons and, 103, 108, 124, 125, 150–52, 154, 169, 170, 194, 207, 219–21, 223, 224, 238, 242, 272, 312

  surrender of, 228

  Turek and, 223, 263

  “Twenty-five Years in the Military,” 311

  Wohlwerth and, 58, 61, 64, 103, 109

  Weiss, William, 3, 5, 7–9, 54, 64, 103, 312

  letter to War Department from, 269–70

  War Department telegrams to, 187–88, 208, 227, 269

  Werner, Wade, 200

  “What the Soldier Thinks,” 209

  White, “Chalky,” 47, 76–77, 81–83

  White, Brigadier General M. G., 57

  Whitehead, Alfred T., xviii, xix, 23–28, 41–43, 85–91, 126–32, 142–46, 197–200, 255–60, 274–84, 296–302, 303–7

  appeal to clemency and review board, 304

  appendicitis of, 260, 274

  army enlistment of, 23, 25

  arrest of, 297–99, 304

  attack on, 306–7

  barber shop of, 303, 304, 307

  childhood of, 23–24

  court-martial of, 298–302, 303, 305

  D-Day invasion and, 87–90

  death of, 307

  desertion of, 275, 276, 303–4, 305

  Diary of a Soldier, 23

  dishonorable discharge of, 302–5

  drinking of, 127, 197, 198, 274, 277, 297, 306

  escape of, 284

  in gang, 279–81, 297

  on guard duty, 143

  imprisonment of, 303

  Lea and, 277, 278, 281, 282, 296, 297

  medals and awards of, 132, 275

  in Paris, 273, 276–82, 284, 296–98, 302, 305–6

  Patton and, 144–45

  promoted to corporal, 132, 142

  surrender and imprisonment of, 282–84

  surrendering Germans and, 143

  Turner and, 127, 130–32, 197

  wounding of, 131–32, 142, 303–4

  Whitehead, Alexander T., II, 305, 307

  Whitehead, Artie, 24

  Whitehead, Selma Sherpe, 42–43, 200, 278, 29
7, 303

  Whitehead, Wily, 24

  Whittlesey, Charles, 7

  Wilson, Benjamin F., Jr., 218, 231–39, 243–47, 249

  Wilson, Woodrow, xiv, 4, 5–6

  Wimberley, Major General Douglas “Tartan Tam,” 14, 30

  Wohlwerth, Sheldon, 58, 61, 64, 103, 109, 135, 137, 138, 161, 162

  death of, 210

  Woods, John C., 265–68

  World War I, xix, 54, 98

  desertion in, xiii, xiv, 6–7, 16

  James Bain in, 51, 53

  Wyatt, Woodrow, 292

  Yank, 188, 196

  York, Alvin Cullum, 25–26

 

 

 


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