Dillon's War

Dillon Summers, a driver for artillery forward observers of the 391st Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 3rd Armored Division, seldom talked about his experiences in World War II. Using several letters and V-mails that he wrote to his family members from England and the combat zone as well as his units' histories, however, the author traces Dillon's steps, detailing his experiences from induction through State-side training to embarkation for England and then his training on the Salisbury Plain. The book traces his steps from the breakout from the Normandy bocage during Operation COBRA, the chasing of the Germans from France and Belgium, and into Germany. It provides vivid descriptions of the battles in which he was engaged as a vital but too often unsung part at the tip of the spear that was the 3rd Armored Division.