Howard Margol
WWII | Battery B, 392nd Field Artillery Battalion, 42nd Infantry Division
He had desert training and mountain training, so Howard Margol figured that with the way the Army usually worked, he would be sent to the Pacific. What he wanted was a transfer to the 42nd Rainbow Division where his twin brother was serving. Told there was no way short of a letter to President Roosevelt from his mother, he decided to try that. (8:54)