Introduction

INTRODUCTION

Dachau, Germany

1945

I have good intentions of making this a complete story of my army "career" with many of the details which I remember so well. But how long these good intentions will last I do not know.

My accounts will undoubtedly vary with others covering the same incidents. In combat each day is a nightmare and no two people see the same things in the same light and many times no one actually does know what happened nor how. Small towns are just so many snipers in church steeples and so many men left dead or wounded on the town's outskirts.

To the civilian soldiers with whom I shared these experiences.

Arthur J. Clayton