Army Guy, Red Cross Gal: The Lives & Letters of Two Small-Town Hoosiers Who Helped During World War II

Bill Husselman served as a military police lieutenant with General George S. Patton's Third Army as it marched across northwest Europe. Mary Brandon was a Red Cross club worker who offered aid and comfort to U.S. Fifth Army troops fighting their way up Italy's boot. This book is a firsthand account of their wartime experiences, told through letters and photographs preserved by their families. Their stories are separate, important, and remarkable- and meld into one story when the war ends.

Paperback. 431 pages. 2023, Pale Oak Publishing. By Barbara Olenyik Morrow with Ellen England.