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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, 297, 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

Table of Contents

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT

DEDICATION

CONTENTS

EPIGRAPH

INTRODUCTION

BOOK I | Of Boys to Soldiers

ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
TEN
ELEVEN
TWELVE
THIRTEEN
FOURTEEN
FIFTEEN
SIXTEEN

BOOK II | Of Soldiers to Deserters

SEVENTEEN
EIGHTEEN
NINETEEN
TWENTY
TWENTY-ONE
TWENTY-TWO
TWENTY-THREE
TWENTY-FOUR

BOOK III | Military Justice

TWENTY-FIVE
TWENTY-SIX
TWENTY-SEVEN
TWENTY-EIGHT
TWENTY-NINE
THIRTY
THIRTY-ONE
THIRTY-TWO

EPILOGUE

PHOTOGRAPHS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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