The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II (65 page)

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

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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