Nobody'S Hero: The Story Of A Marine Sniper Scout - 9780996719476

A farm boy from Dodge County, Wisconsin, doesn?t grow up believing he?ll be hurled into a life and death arena, wondering if he?ll make it to twenty-one, but during the early 1940s this was the reality of manhood. When the Marines came calling, Del Schultz answered. He became one of the first top scouts/snipers and hand-to-hand combat killers with the Marines. From the first days of training in California in 1943 to scouring the Japanese islands before and after the bomb was dropped in 1945, Del transformed from information gatherer and peacekeeper into a killing machine. What began as a skill honed for a job where ?kill or be killed? was the only way to survive, excelling at hand-to-hand combat became his Achilles heel. What military training had somehow ?turned on,? Del quickly discovered he could not ?turn off.? In 1946, when Marine physicians in Hawaii and the Great Lakes Naval Hospital back home literally forgot about him, Del?s bitterness towards his Marine superiors grew like a fungus. He vowed to erase his military history forever. It?s bothered him long enough. Until now. This is his story; his chance to make peace with the past.

• | Author: Karla R. Jensen
• | Publisher: Karla R. Jensen
• | Publication Date: Feb 20, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 176 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0996719474
• | ISBN-13: 9780996719476