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Elizabeth D. Samet, editor, is professor of English at the United States Military Academy at West Point and the author of Soldier's Heart- Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point and Looking for the Good War- American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness, among other works. Charles B. MacDonald (1922-1990) commanded two different rifle companies in the 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, in northwest Europe, September 1944-January 1945 and March-May 1945. His memoir Company Commander was published in 1947. J. Glenn Gray (1913-1977) served with three different infantry divisions in Italy, France, and Germany in 1944-45. After the war he resumed his academic career and became a professor of philosophy at Colorado College. He published The Warriors- Reflections on Men in Battle in 1959. Mary Lee Settle (1918-2005), a native of West Virginia, volunteered for the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) in 1942 after being rejected by the U.S. military for poor eyesight. After the war she became a full-time writer, publishing fourteen novels and five works of nonfiction, including her war memoir All the Brave Promises- Memories of an Aircraft Woman Second Class 2146391 (1966). Elmer Bendiner (1916-2001), a reporter for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle before the war, enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces in December 1941 and flew twenty-five combat missions over northwest Europe, June-November 1943. He resumed his journalistic career after the war and published his memoir The Fall of Fortresses in 1980. James Harden Daugherty (1923-2015), a native of Washington, D.C., was drafted into the U.S. Army and served in Italy in 1944-45 with the only Black division sent to fight in Europe. Daugherty wrote a first version of The Buffalo Saga in 1947 but was discouraged when he was unable to find a publisher. He eventually self-published the book in 2009, when it received national attention.
