No Major Goof-Up

Recollections of World War II citizen soldier T/5 Jack M. Clark, A Battery, 474th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, as told to his daughter, Susan Clark Lawson

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Jack's memorial brick at the National WWII
Museum in New Orleans. If you visit, 

look for it at the inside entrance 
to the exhibit galleries.
RESEARCH LINKS
474th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion
Battalion Dr. Louis Small's Diary of the 474th
(This diary mentions treating Jack on 07/28/44
for the wound that earned him his Purple heart.)
National D-Day Memorial, Bedford, VA
National WWII Museum, New Orleans, LA
National World War II Memorial, Washington, DC
U.S. Army Center of Military History


WRITING LINKS
Dad's War: Finding and Telling Your Dad's WWII Story
How to Write a Memoir
Library of Congress Veterans History Project
On Memoir, Truth and Writing Well
Susan Lawson Creative Writing Workshops





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WHY MAJOR GOOF-UP?

When Jack's children asked what he did in the war, he told them he was a "Major Goof-up." Eventually they figured out that wasn't a real rank. Later they discovered how very far from a "goof-up" their dad really was.

CHAPTER QUICK LINKS

  • 1. You're in the Army now!
  • 2. College the Army way
  • 3. AWOL from North Carolina
  • 4. Over the sea to Britain
  • 5. Life among the Brits
  • 6. Maneuvers and mishaps
  • 7. The Channel voyage on D-Day
  • 8. The Utah Beach landing
  • 9. Off the beaches & into the hedgerows
  • 10. On to St. Lo with the VII Corps
  • 11. Past Paris and nearing Belgium
  • 12. Warm welcome in Belgium
  • 13. Capture and casualty
  • 14. Into Deutschland
  • 15. The Battle of the Bulge
  • 16. To Bastogne and the Ruhr region
  • 17. Nordhausen & beginning of the end
  • 18. Homeward bound

REST IN PEACE, JACK CLARK
Feb. 12, 1922 - Nov. 29, 2013

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