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      Home Front to Battlefront

       WAR AND SOCIETY IN NORTH AMERICA

       Series Editors: Ingo Trauschweizer and David J. Ulbrich

       Editorial Board

      Janet Bednarek

      Michael W. Doyle

      Nicole Etcheson

      Joseph Fitzharris

      John Grenier

      John Hall

      Paul Herbert

      James Westheider

      Lee Windsor

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      Home Front to Battlefront: An Ohio Teenager in World War II, by Frank Lavin

       HOME FRONT TO BATTLEFRONT

       An Ohio Teenager in World War II

       Frank Lavin

      Foreword by Dr. Henry A. Kissinger

      OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

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      Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Lavin, Franklin L., author.

      Title: Home front to battlefront: an Ohio teenager in World War II / Frank Lavin; foreword by Dr. Henry A. Kissinger.

      Other titles: Ohio teenager in World War II

      Description: Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, [2016] | Series: War and society in North America | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016040527| ISBN 9780821422557 (hc: alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821445921 (pdf)

      Subjects: LCSH: Lavin, Carl, 1924–2014. | United States. Army. Infantry Division, 84th—Biography. | Soldiers—United States—Correspondence. | Jewish soldiers—United States—Correspondence. | World War, 1939–1945—Campaigns—Germany. | World War, 1939–1945—Personal narratives, American. | United States. Army—Military life—Anecdotes. | Germany—Social conditions—20th century—Anecdotes. | Teenagers—Ohio—Biography. | Canton (Ohio)—Biography.

      Classification: LCC D769.3 84th L47 2016 | DDC 940.541273092 [B]—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016040527

      To the men of Company L:

      We are here today because they were there yesterday.

      Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Foreword

       Preface

       Acknowledgments

       A Note on the Text

       Part I: Before Combat

       Introduction

       1. From Canton to Miami and Enlistment

       (December 1941–May 1943)

       2. Texas

       (May–October 1943)

       3. Queens College, New York City

       (November 1943–March 1944)

       4. Mississippi

       (March–October 1944)

       5. Britain

       (November–December 1944)

       Part II: In the War

       6. The Battle of the Bulge

       (December 1944–February 1945)

       7. The Battle of the Roer

       (February–March 1945)

       8. The Battle of the Rhine

       (April–May 1945)

       Part III: After the War

       9.

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