Any books about non combat soldiers?

[togor]

The Good War by Studs Turkel, which came out in '84, has a lot of oral history snippets in it from all kinds of people, including support troops that never got near the front.

[blackhawknj]

"Death Traps" by Belton Y. Cooper. Talks about his experiences as an maintenance officer in the 3rd Armored Division.

[M1Tommy]

A decent read and some good tales by an F-105 crew chief. I know the man who authored this, a decent curmudgeonly type, IMO.

CREW CHIEF, "be he ne'er so vile" , by William Buzz Barron.

LINK:
https://www.amazon.com/CREW-CHIEF-ne.../dp/152297573X

I have read it, and have given copies to my son (coincidentally a crew chief nowadays) and my jarhead pilot nephew.

Tommy

[CJCulpeper]

Here in a MI town there is a dispute going on having to do with a law involving veteran rights, the city consul is maintaining that if vet was not in combat he is not a veteran!
Does not involve me but I was sent into a 'combat zone for 5 months but was never 'in combat', so I must be in limbo!

That person is huffing paint straight from the can.

[bnrg]

Another crew chief book is 'Flying Tiger, a crew chiefs story' by Frank Losonsky. He was in the first group in the AVG and is a pretty good read. Short book (~100 pages) but many great photos.

[musketshooter]

It is too bad that there is so little about the rear area forces. My father was in canon company 110 of the 28th Division. I have read every book I can find on the 28th and there is hardly any mention of the cannon company's attached . There were 3.
I do have a firing log from the 204th Field Artillery Battalion. The log begins on 12 July 1944 and ends on 8 May 1945. I contacted the Army History unit in Pennsylvania and they had no interest in getting it. Kind of a shame.