Against All Odds: (Non fiction)

Against All Odds: (Non fiction)
by Herbert Fowle

Against All Odds: (Non fiction)
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Author: Herbert Fowle
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-07-14
ISBN: 0595387519
Number of pages: 506
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
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  • ISBN13: 9780595387519
  • Condition: New
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Summary: 5 Stars

I don't read many army books but this was a true story. All the army men written in the book were true to life. In fact many times while reading the book you could actually feel what the writer was experiencing. It was well written and at times there was humor along with sadness. I had a very special reason to read this book; my father was one of the sergeants written in the book "Ipjian". The author's comments and conversations with "Ipjian" were true to life because it does sound so much like my father today. I am fortunate that my father is still alive today to tell story's of the past and to have made it through the war after being seriously wounded.

I thank the author for writing this book, and sharing the experience that many men went through in World War II and how we can relate this to the current world of today.

Summary of Against All Odds: (Non fiction)

Upon completion of basic training at Camp Wolters Texas Infantry Replacement Training Center, the author shipped overseas to the European Theater of Operations.

After a rough crossing of the English Channel and passing through several replacement depots, he was assigned to an infantry line company. The unit, severely decimated by casualties, was currently engaged in the bloody battle of Hurtgen Forrest.

Though trained as a rifleman, he volunteered to be a light machine gunner, though he knew that the automatic weapons of the company were a prime target for enemy gunners. He was also aware that the life expectancy of a machine gunner was considerably shorter than that of a rifleman. However, when the company commander made it clear that someone had to be a machine gunner and, since no one else volunteered, the author reluctantly laid down his trusty M-1 rifle and filled the vacancy.

During the balance of the conflict, the author raised the average life of a light machine gunner considerably.

Though he was a late combat arrival, he earned three campaign stars and beat all the odds when, by the end of the war, they had not yet fired the bullet with his name on it.

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