The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II (64 page)

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

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