[marktwain]

My friend, George (Tex) Ferguson, was reportedly the 2nd most decorated American in WWII. He wrote up his memoirs in the 70's and sent them off to the Army and Navy for permission the publish. The Navy gave permission nearly immediately; the Army, never, and kept the manuscript. I doubt if it still exists. What a tragedy.

He was in charge of the "Bushmaster", a unit that trained in Panama and conducted behind the lines intelligence gathering operations on the Pacific Islands occupied by the Japanese. Later, he was assigned to the European theater in time for the D-Day invasion.

He was a most remarkable man.

[marktwain]

Oops. Should be "Bushmasters" not Bushmaster.

[libstripper]

Is there any chance he either kept a copy or sent them a copy while keeping the original? Since he wrote his memoirs in the 70s, they were definitely done in hard copy on a typewriter instead of a PC, meaning he might have lost the only copy that ever existed.