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Letters From The Communications Zone: Lt. Edwin Best In The Second World War., Jeremy Eugene Cobb
Letters From The Communications Zone: Lt. Edwin Best In The Second World War., Jeremy Eugene Cobb
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The subject of this paper is the experiences and observations of Lt. Edwin Best of the 618th Ordnance Ammunition Company from 1943 until 1946. This includes time in the United States, England and France.
The primary sources for this paper include letters home from Lt. Best and an oral history transcript. Secondary sources have been used to place Lt. Best into the overall context of the war.
He made keen observations regarding the level of training before D-Day, comparisons of life in England and the US, from the "communications zone" in Normandy, as a temporary Judge Advocate General officer, and …