Post by connie on Dec 27, 2020 16:36:57 GMT -5
Scholars in Foxholes by Louis E. Keefer
The story of the ASTP program (written in 1998)
This book is obviously out of print. Nabbing a copy for a reasonable price can take some searching.
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"During World War II, the U.S. Army ran the single biggest education program in the nation's history. The Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) sent more than 200,000 soldiers to more than 200 colleges and universities to study engineering, foreign languages, personnel psychology, dentistry, and medicine. Selected for their high IQs and previous educational experience, the young men believed they would eventually be assigned to technical duties requiring such training. Many expected to become officers.
When the program was abruptly ended in 1944, more thaqn 100,000 trainees - excluding those in medical and dental schools - were reassigned to infantry, armored, and airborne divisions and other Army units destined for quick shipment overseas. None were in college for more than nine months, none were made officers; indeed, most remained privates until the mounting casualties in their units found them stepping into leadership roles as corporals and sergeants.
These young "scholars in foxholes" became outstanding combat soldiers, but suffered heavy losses in killed, wounded and captured.
This amazing story of the U.S. Army's tragic misuse of some of the nation's best and brightest young men is told in the words of more than three hundred surviving former ASTPers by World War II historian Louis Keefer, himself a former ASTPer."
106th NOTE: Many of the replacements who came to the 106th before they headed overseas were from this Army Specialized Training Program.
For more on men from the Division who had been in this program see: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/2236/thread
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The story of the ASTP program (written in 1998)
This book is obviously out of print. Nabbing a copy for a reasonable price can take some searching.
ABE BOOKS www.abebooks.com/9780899503462/Scholars-Foxholes-Story-Army-Specialized-0899503462/plp
This site currently has the best assortment copies and prices
AMAZON www.amazon.com/Scholars-foxholes-Specialized-Training-Program/dp/B0006R27U8?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0
Currently if you want to feel good about the price you paid elsewhere, check out the Amazon price...
"During World War II, the U.S. Army ran the single biggest education program in the nation's history. The Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) sent more than 200,000 soldiers to more than 200 colleges and universities to study engineering, foreign languages, personnel psychology, dentistry, and medicine. Selected for their high IQs and previous educational experience, the young men believed they would eventually be assigned to technical duties requiring such training. Many expected to become officers.
When the program was abruptly ended in 1944, more thaqn 100,000 trainees - excluding those in medical and dental schools - were reassigned to infantry, armored, and airborne divisions and other Army units destined for quick shipment overseas. None were in college for more than nine months, none were made officers; indeed, most remained privates until the mounting casualties in their units found them stepping into leadership roles as corporals and sergeants.
These young "scholars in foxholes" became outstanding combat soldiers, but suffered heavy losses in killed, wounded and captured.
This amazing story of the U.S. Army's tragic misuse of some of the nation's best and brightest young men is told in the words of more than three hundred surviving former ASTPers by World War II historian Louis Keefer, himself a former ASTPer."
106th NOTE: Many of the replacements who came to the 106th before they headed overseas were from this Army Specialized Training Program.
For more on men from the Division who had been in this program see: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/2236/thread
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