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Other individuals who put in extensive full-time on the groundwork of this volume, with
resulting conspicuous improvement in the final product, were Francis H. Ghur, Anthony C. Marchant,
Edward Kaplan and John C. Johnson. Everyone of these former XII Corps Headquarters sergeants has
left his mark with for the better on the history. Guhr's biggest single task was the compiling of the
consolidated list of units in Appendix B, but his knowledge of the headquarters Adjutant General files
and his careful research in them benefited the project at innumerable other points besides. Marchant's
work speaks for itself; he is responsible for all the photographic layout and all the decorative drawings
in the volume, except in those few instances specifically credited to some other hand. Both Guhr and
Marchant loyally remained on duty in Germany and Washington, in order to wind up their particular
assignments for several weeks after their Adjusted Service Rating scores would have permitted them to
return to civilian life. Johnson and Kaplan, during combat with the XII Corps Headquarters War Room,
put their special experience to valuable postwar use. The former's most tedious mission no doubt, was
the translation of the grid readings in the station lists (Appendix A into geographic equivalents, so that
members of units might tell at a glance, without reference to special maps, where their own headquarters
were located on the given date. Kaplan was draftsman for the series of 17 operational and three double-
spread occupational maps herein, in addition to many other duties in connection with the preparation of
the volume.
A large number of other individuals helped to advance the work while it was still being carried
out in Bavaria, doing special jobs in addition to their regular assignments, or working for shorter periods
full-time. William N Thomas, Jr and Rudolph C Lange, then both captains with the G-3 and G-2
sections respectively, collaborated to layout the operational maps referred to in the preceding paragraph.
Captain Janet P Coleman, WAC, conscientiously employed a month's Temporary Duty from SHAEF to
collaborate with Captain Dyre in obtaining many of the first-hand accounts of personal experience
which have been used so liberally throughout the book. Captain Clifford A Raser, working closely with
MacLeod, secured most of the outlying artillery and cavalry interviews. Captain Thomas H Whalen, a
former XII Corps Headquarters officer then with the 90th Infantry Division, was a shining example of
assistance in the promotional field, being largely responsible for arousing a higher degree of interest in
the project among members of his new outfit than was expressed in the concrete form of subscriptions
by any other XII Corps division. M/Sgts Rolf C Chambers and Quentin McKillop were unusually
cooperative in their contributions of photographs and other useful material.
With transfer of the project to the United States a whole new field of indebtedness was opened.
The work required two months of Temporary Duty in the Pentagon Building while sources relating to
XII Corps' Pre-ETO experience was examined. Here the Historical Division of the War Department
Special Staff acted as host; especially encouraging in that division was the Director, Major General
Edwin Harding, together with his assistants, Colonels Alan F Clark, Jr and John M Kemper, and a Dr
Walter L Wright, Jr. Much specialized help in their respective fields was rendered by Mr Israel Weiss,
Miss Louise Haanes, Miss Katherine Lambert, and others in the division. Captain Thurman Wilkins and
his assistant, Miss Clyde Hillyer, gave invaluable assistance in the Adjutant General Historical Records;
as did Captain George R Wagoner in the map section of G-2, War Department General Staff.
In Headquarters Third Service Command (later Headquarters Second Army) the list is also long.
Outstanding for months of devoted attention to exacting detailed work is Mrs Hazel Gordon Maguire,
who is responsible for the entire stenographic and clerical work during the latter stages of the project.
Most impressive of her many achievements was the typing of an estimated million words of preliminary
drafts, final draft and final typescript. In addition she indexed the whole text, a most lengthy labor. In
the Engineer Section, Captain Paul E Mullins assisted with map work; and Jack E Carr was the soldier-
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