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May have. Good grief, I'm old enough that I've attended lectures by a "guest professor" named Cornelius Ryan. He was an old buddy of the Dean of the college of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University named Joseph Sutton and had been one of the original OSS officers.

Joe's signature is on my diploma.

We had a lot of guest lecturers who had lived it on the ground.

While in the service I got to know our training brigade's Sergeant Major. In WWII he was a Captain assigned directly to work with Russians on the Trans Siberian ~ moving stuff from America to the front the long way. He was quite an interesting guy and boy could he play chess!

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Another good book I like is, Voices of Valor, D-Day: June 6, 1944. I recieved both books as a Christmas gift from my daughter, she knows her MOM (me) likes war stories. My dad served in the Pacific in ww2, and Korea, he was a medic. He wasn't too keen talking about the things he saw and I never pressed him. He had his reason's and that was good enough for me.