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Dont Call Me a Hero
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A Gripping Story of Danger and Intrigue With U.S. Army Bomb DisposalExplosions containing more than 100 tons of captured enemy ammunition echo across the North African desert...Hands of the Bomb Disposal technician working feverishly to render-safe and remove a booby trap placed by the extremely deadly German Spreng Kommandos... Fingers probing deep into the wound of an American soldier in an attempt to remove a live explosive projectile lodged within his body...The excitement as Bomb Disposal teams speed through Paris trying to locate and remove the demolitions set there by Hitlers henchmen to level the city...Combat operations in support of General Courtney Hodges, commander of the First Army deep within the Hurtgen Forest. These are just a few of the adversities that face a young soldier from Little Falls, Minnesota as the panorama of war sweeps across Europe.Eric Pedersen finds himself caught up in the events of World War II. Enlisting in the Army at the outbreak of Pearl Harbor, he volunteers for the recently established Bomb disposal program organized at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland. Trained by British instructors, Eric excels in his studies and becomes a member of one of the first class to graduate in 1942. Assigned to one of the newly organized Bomb Disposal Companies, his unit is sent to North Africa, where he learns his dangerous trade under less than ideal conditions in the heat of the desert campaign. After the end of the African campaign, Eric becomes part of the invasion of Sicily and finally Italy, where he meets and forges a friendship with members of the famed Japanese-American 442nd Regimental combat Team, and a Sergeant in the 3rd Infantry Division by the name of Audie Murphy. Plans for the invasion of France by President Roosevelts selection for Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, General Eisenhower, move Eric to England as part of the invasion force at Normandy. After being presented a battlefield commission when his commanding off
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