Accountant. His experiences as a combat infantryman in the European Theater during World War II. Basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, 1943; his selection for the ASTP program and schooling at Northeastern University, 1944; cancellation of the ASTP program and his transfer to the 26th Infantry Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, 1944; advanced infantry training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, 1944; initial combat on the front lines in France, September, 1944; his description of survival techniques under combat conditions; Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, December, 1944-January 1945; effects of combat losses and acclimation of individual replacements; his bout with combat exhaustion and reassignment to a replacement depot as a clerk; participation in the Army of Occupation, 1945-46; postwar adjustments to civilian life.