To discover the grandfather he
never knew, Jeff Badger
began tracking down dozens of World War II veterans from the 978th
Engineer
Maintenance Company, his granddad’s unit. Through his new “war
buddies,” some
who told him stories they had never shared before, Jeff began to
reconstruct
both a life and a very personal vision of a war and the men who fought
it.
Some
stories were funny: tales of brothels, brawls, and bank
robberies. Some were painful: the death of a best friend; building a