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Dogface Soldier: The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr.

Dogface Soldier: The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr.

Heefner, Wilson A.

Paperback

Series: American Military Experience

Military BiographiesGeneral Military HistoryWorld War II

Publisher Price: $32.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 16, 2026

ISBN10: 0826223710
ISBN13: 9780826223715
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: Oct 16 2026
Pages: 400
Language: English
On July 11, 1943, General Lucian Truscott received the Army's second-highest decoration, the Distinguished Service Cross, for valor in action in Sicily. During his career he also received the Army Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, and the Purple Heart. Truscott was one of the most significant of all U.S. Army generals in World War II, pioneering new combat training methods--including the famous Truscott Trot-- and excelling as a combat commander, turning the Third Infantry Division into one of the finest divisions in the U.S. Army. He was instrumental in winning many of the most important battles of the war, participating in the invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Anzio, and southern France. Truscott was not only respected by his peers and dogfaces--common soldiers--alike but also ranked by President Eisenhower as second only to Patton, whose command he took over on October 8, 1945, and led until April 1946.

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