Author: Alfred DiGiacomo
In October 1943, after completing months of training in the United States, Alfred DiGiacomo was shipped to England on the Queen Mary (a unforgettable trip) and assigned to the 926 Signal Batttalion. The Battalion provided communications for the 9th Tactical Air Command which provided air support with fighter-bombers for the U S First Army from the initlal landing in Normandy to Weimar, Germany when the war ended.
The author kept a daily diary which details the life of a G I--The training, the routine duties, the drama of war, the release provided by passes and dates.
We are also presented with some key moment sof the war; The Litttle blitz of London, the Normandy beachead, Liberation of Paris and Brussells, The Battle of the Bulge , the Buzz Bombs inLiege and the night one landed on his quareters, and the horrors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
After completing his sevice in 1945, the author went into the field of Architecture and had successful career as an Architeect designing numerous schools and other public buildings.
