Menu Of War

About the Book

Dow kept detailed notes, military maps, army directives and a 1942 printed Christmas Dinner Menu, that lists all members of Company G, 350^th Regiment, 88^th Infantry Division, where he served most of his basic training.

This book provides insight into the performance of a premier unit comprised principally of civilians drafted into combat against powerful Nazi armies led by “Smiling Albert” Kesselring, one of Hitler’s favorite generals.

Dow uses highway drawings to detail the locations of more than thirty Division Headquarters’ Command Posts from the empty school building just north of Naples to a vacant elementary school in the Italian Alps.

About the Author

William G. Dow published his memoir, “One, Only” in 2003—a depiction of his home town, Republican City, Nebraska. The village was terminated in 1951, to make way for construction of a dam on the Republican River in south central Nebraska.

Bill Dow attended the University of Nebraska pre Pearl Harbor. After World War II he graduated from the University Of Southern California School Of Journalism. He was a reporter on the Arcadia Weekly, in Southern California; The Las Vegas Review Journal in Nevada; and The Newark Star Ledger in New Jersey, plus twenty years in the public relation business in Los Angeles.

He and his wife Erzsi owned and managed an office furniture manufacturing plant in Calgary Alberta Canada, 1971-1989. She was born in Hungary and is a naturalized citizen of Canada. The Dows now reside in Tucson and have a son Mark, a leading Arizona chef. He and his wife Helen, a graduate of the University of Arizona, have a newly born son.