The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II (64 page)

Rennie, Gordon, 93, 112, 114–16, 118, 311

Resnick, Maxwell, 231

Reynaud, Gaston, 157–59, 161, 164–65, 176–77

Richardson, Delmar, 68

Rickerson, Roy, 180–83, 184, 186, 188, 189, 192, 242

Rigby, Ray, 75, 76

Robertson, Major General Walter Melville, 128, 144

Robinson, Thomas, 265–66

Rockman, Abe, 188

Rommel, General Erwin, 14, 29, 32–33, 35, 45

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 57, 180, 250, 273

Four Freedoms of, 122

Operation Dragoon and, 134

Ropos, Truman, 137

Runstedt, Gerd von, 258

Russell, David F. O., 116–17

Salomon, Louis, 157–61

Sanchez, Pedro S., 131, 132

Sargent, John Singer, 310

Saunders, H. W. B., 11

Scannell, John, 291, 308, 309

Scannell, Josephine Higson, 308

Scannell, Vernon (John Vernon Bain), xix–xx, 10–14, 20–22, 29–33, 35–40, 45–53, 92–93, 96–101, 111–19, 285–95, 307–11

Argument of Kings,
308, 309

army enlistment of, 53

“Baptism of Fire,” 30

birth of, 49

Black and, 13, 38–40, 80, 92–94, 96, 98, 99, 101, 112–15

Black’s death and, 115–16

boxing of, 10, 13, 14, 51–53, 78, 289, 291, 293, 307, 308

“Casualty—Mental Ward,” 294

childhood of, 49–52

“Compulsory Mourning,” 80, 83

court-martial of, 294

D-Day and, 98–101, 111–12

death of, 311

Denham and, 114

desertion of, 47–49, 53, 73, 84, 93, 96, 285–91, 308–10

Grey and, 36, 115

imprisonment of, 49, 53, 71–84, 93, 94, 96

jobs of, 288–89

“Love and Courage,” 53

marriage of, 308

in mental asylum, 294–95

name change of, 291

Not Without Glory: Poets of the Second World War,
310

Of Love and War,
310

onset of World War II and, 52

“On the Run,” 293–94

“Port of Arrival,” 20

release from prison, 84

“Remembering Alamein,” 31, 33

“Remembering the Dead at Wadi Akarit,” 40

“Robbie,” 100

teaching of, 307–8

“The Unknown War Poet,” 52

“Walking Wounded,” 310–11

wounding of, 119, 285

Schmeidel, Werner, xviii

Schmidt, Dana Adam, xviii

Schwerdfeger, Roy L., 131, 132

Scruby, William, 158–60, 163, 170, 173, 183, 238, 245

death of, 210

Sedloff, Hal, 58, 68–70

Serre, Maurice and Odette, 167

Sevareid, Eric, 139, 171, 202–3

Severs, Kenneth, 292

Shanklin, Harry, 124, 135, 137, 139, 152, 313

death of, 209–10

Sharland, Timothy, 95–96

Shaw, George Bernard, 308

Shaw, George F., 300

Sheean, Vincent, 122

Sheen, Martin, xiv

shell shock,
see
battle fatigue

Shumate, Robert C., 283

Siegfried Line Campaign, The
(MacDonald), xvii

Simmons, Allan, 103, 108, 124, 125, 150–52, 154, 169, 170, 194, 207, 209, 219–21, 223, 224, 238, 242, 272, 311, 312

Sirkin, Lieb, 17

Sitton, Lowell E., 218, 231, 234

Sitwell, Osbert, 293

Slovik, Antoinette, xii

Slovik, Eddie, xi–xii, xiv, xv, 281

Smith, Harold D., 56

Smitz, William, xiv

Spanish-American War, xiv

Spencer, Allen C., 265

Sprechman, David L., 300

Stack, General Robert L., 138

Stafford, John M., 231, 232, 234, 236

Stars and Stripes,
130

Steger, William, 233

Stevenson, Alec, 93, 115–19

Stimson, Henry L., 56–57

Strecker, Edward, 56

Swales, Wilf, 17

Tepp, Herman L., 228, 230

Thom, Sergeant, 93, 112, 118

Thomson, Richard J., Jr., 228

Time,
56, 95, 280

Times
of London, 290, 293, 308

Tobler, Douglas H., 21

To Hell and Back
(Murphy), ix

T-Patch,
149

Trevelyan, Raleigh, 65–67

Trévières, France, 90–91

Trunkfield, Russell C., 234–35, 238

Truscott, General Lucian, 204

Turek, Frank C., 208, 223–25, 228, 230, 242, 263

court-martial of, 230–33

Turner, Paul S. “Timmiehaw,” 127, 130–32, 197

Twain, Mark, xiv

Ulio, Major General James Alexander, 187, 203

Urquhart, Captain, 101, 112, 113, 118

Valence, France, 151–55, 156–58, 160–61, 162, 163, 168, 201, 227

Valette, Georges, 160

Volle, Marcel, 160, 163

von Lampe, Virginia, 276

Wadi Akarit, Battle of, 37, 40, 47, 53, 80, 96, 116, 285–87, 308–9

Walker, Major General Fred Livingood, 64, 65, 122, 123

War Department, 3–4, 6

William Weiss’ correspondence with, 187–88, 208, 227, 269–70

Washington Post,
195, 200

Waskow, Henry T., 124–25

Weidaw, Clarence, 210, 224–27, 242, 263

Weiss, Helen Ruth, 7

Weiss, Jean Seidman, 7

Weiss, Stephen James, xvi–xvii, xix, 7–9, 25, 54–58, 61, 62, 64, 66–70, 102–10, 120–25, 133–41, 149–55, 156–61, 162–66, 167–77, 178–83, 184–94, 201, 204, 206–14, 217–28, 275, 311–14

army enlistment of, 8–9, 23, 54

author’s meeting of, xvi

in basic training, 54–58

Binoche (“Auger”) and, 166, 169, 170, 172–75, 179, 181, 183, 185, 189, 242, 243, 312

court-martial of, 230, 233–50, 270, 300, 314

court-martial sentence of, 249–50, 251

Cox and, 189

Dahan family and, 192–94, 226, 312

desertions of, 149–52, 154, 212, 214, 217–28, 269, 313

Dickson and, 263

in French Resistance, 169–70, 178, 181, 191, 210, 238, 243, 272, 312

grenade incident, 222–23, 224

guilty verdict for, 249

health problems of, 183, 184, 194

at Hôtel Serre, 166, 167–68

imprisonment of, 251–54, 261–73

Laureta and, 181–83

Mathey and, 175–77

as missing in action, 187–88, 208, 227

in Operational Group Louise, 178–83