World War II was not only a chaotic affair, but truly a “World War” with fighting going on around the globe, on land, on sea and in the air with participants from virtually every country. Details of the war stretch to infinity and are impossible to grasp in total. To be understood at all, one must approach it in piecemeal fragments. One way is to study the history of an individual soldier and relate his actions to the whole.

George Washington Looney served as an artillery forward observer for the 196th Field Artillery Battalion, a vital, but relatively unfamiliar military assignment. George was a modest man who rarely spoke of his many accomplishments in the Army; Mike Looney has researched his father’s service history and wrote this book in an effort to properly recognize not only George's contributions to the Allied success during the war, but also the efforts of his fellow members of the 196th.

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