An autobiography of one mans journey through peacetime to WWII through the Korean Conflict. A northern farm boys transition to a active duty officer with the Ohio National Guard Infantry Division's call to active duty at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Including a tour of duty at the Infantry School in Fort Benning, Georgia. The infamous maneuvers of 1941, shipment to the South Pacific, deployment to New Zealand, the Fiji Islands, Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Bouganville, and return to the US. Student at the Air Ground School located at Key Field, Mississippi. Redeployment to Europe and service as a Liaison officer to a fighter-bomber group stationed at Sandhoffen, Germany. Return to Ohio and his National Guard affiliation at the end of WWII only to be reactivated in 1951 to serve in the Korean Conflict.