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Guest of Adolf
The War of SSG Ernest V. Focht, 805th Tank Destroyer Battalion
- 210 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
"… the amount of first-hand material included by the author ensures that the reader is getting a full picture and understanding of what SSG Ernest V Focht went through. When first-hand memoirs and autobiographies are unavailable, books like Michael H. Zang's are the next best thing, and well worth a read if written as well as Guest of Adolf." – The Journal of America's Military Past "I was a guest of Adolf!" This was how Ernest Focht responded when asked about his wartime experience. Ernest Virgil Focht was born and brought up in Tyrone, Pennsylvania. He was drafted into the Pennsylvania Army National Guard in April 1941 and assigned to the 105th Infantry Battalion (Anti-Tank). After training he participated in the Carolina Maneuvers. The National Guard unit was redesignated as the 805th Tank Destroyer Battalion, being deployed to North Africa in January 1943. Ernie was captured in his first action in February 1943, remaining a prisoner of war until May 1945 when the Russian Army liberated his camp. During these 27 months he was held in five different POW camps, and was forced to march between camps in the depths of the 1944–45 winter. Using his wartime diaries and letters home, this book offers an insight into the 805th Tank Destroyer Battalion, and the experiences of prisoners of war.
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HistoryTable of contents
- Cover page
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Growing Up
- 2 Military Training
- 3 Anti-Tank Force Development
- 4 North Africa 1942–43 (Operation Torch)
- 5 Sicily, Italy, and Moosburg, Germany
- 6 Stalag IIIB Fürstenberg
- 7 Stalag IIIA Luckenwalde
- 8 Liberation: The Way Home
- 9 Reunion and Asheville, North Carolina
- 10 Civilian Life
- Appendix 1 105th/805th Tank Destroyer Battalion History
- Appendix 2 Ernest Focht’s Lists
- Appendix 3 Ernest Virgil Focht’s Chronology
- Appendix 4 Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
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