Cornfield Soldiers

AS the guns from the world's largest invasion fleet blasted the French coast on that cold morning of June 6th, 1944, and Allied aircraft pounded German positions, five hundred men from the United States Army's 238th Engineer Combat Battalion prepared themselves for landing on Utah Beach. These men came from the four corners of America: Boca Raton, Florida, to Detroit, Michigan; from Kerrville, Tennessee, to Ord, Nebraska, and everywhere in between. They answered President Roosevelt's call to battle by leaving their homes and loved ones in the cities of America and the farmlands of the Midwest. They were young, well-trained, courageous soldiers who would fight their way from Utah Beach to the Elbe River. In the process, these combat engineers would build hundreds of bridges under fire, lay thousands of mines, help liberate Aachen, fight at the Remagen bridge, discover the Nazi baby factories in the Harz Mountains, survive the onslaught in the Ardennes and liberate the Dora-Mittlebau concentration camp shortly before the final destruction of the Third Reich. In this, the author's third book, Paul Michael Frazee' tells the story of one of America's most highly-decorated combat engineer units during World War II. This is the story of those Cornfield Soldiers.