The amazing true story of the man who performed and survived more POW raids than any other person in military history. He went to battle as a boy. Galen Charles Kittleson was slight, modest and born to wage war. The son of an Iowa farmer, Kittleson volunteered in 1943 and caught the eye of his commanders. By 1945, PFC Kittleson was selected for the Army's smallest elite unit, the Alamo Scouts. While US forces were pushing back the Japanese in the Pacific, the Alamo Scouts unleashed legendary raids deep behind enemy lines including the liberation of over 500 starved, beaten prisoners of the Bataan Death March in the Philippines. For Kittleson, a career as a raider had just begun. And on one of the most daring missions of World War II, he became a man - and the perfect soldier for America's next wars...
- ISBN13 9780312982492
- Publish Date 14 July 2002
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 13 December 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English