COLLEGE STATION-General George S. Patton said, ÒGive me an army of West Point graduates, and I'll win a battle . . .give me a handful of Texas Aggies, and I'll win a war!Ó General Patton would have known; during World War II, 20,000 Aggies fought, including 14,000 as commissioned officers. The military tradition has always run deep at Texas A&M University. The school has produced more officers than any other institution in the nation except for the service academies.
Texas Aggies Go to War is the first-ever compilation of the impressive war record of these soldiers, airmen, sailors, and marines who all shared an alma mater. Dethloff and Adams have gathered first-person accounts of Aggie heroism in battle in all the wars in which Aggies have fought. Included are the experiences of the eighty-seven Aggies stationed at Corregidor and Bataan, the five aggies who participated in Doolittle's raid over Tokyo, and James Earl Rudder's leadership of the Ranger assault at Normandy on D-Day. An abundance of statistics, maps, and tables are also provided.
Proceeds from the sale of this book will be used to benefit the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets.

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