Robert "Doc Joe" Franklin provides an account of his experiences as a medic with Company I, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division from 1943 to 1945 in the European theater of World War II.

The invasion of Sicily : July 1943 -- The Battle of Bloody Ridge : July 28-30, 1943 -- The invasion of Italy : September 1943 -- Winter line : September to November 1943 -- Anzio to Rome : February to June 1944 -- The invasion of Southern France : August 1944 -- Rambervillers, France, to Aschaffenburg, Germany : September 1944 to March 1945 -- Aschaffenburg, Germany : April 1945.