This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pierson, Eisenhower, Pyle Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4158 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. June 22, 1944. "Jack Pierson Returns From Battle Area".-- Jack Pierson is home on a 21 day furlough from the army. Jack left with Company "E", went through the Louisiana maneuvers and then to Ireland, where he was transferred to the English Commandos and participated in the Africa landings with that unit. He was transferred back to his old company and went through the African campaign and saw considerable action in Italy, also. N.B.: I believe there is a special significance to the above terms "Louisiana maneuvers". It seems to me that I remember that those maneuvers were the scenes of military training where one Dwight D. Eisenhower made such a name for himself that he was later named as Commander in the African theater of operations.....Company "E": Wasn't that the company from Shenandoah in the Rainbow division that landed in Africa, fought eastward across northern Africa to Faid Pass where so many of that company was captured by Rommel?.....Does anyone remember the current events of that date so that my understanding might be added to, corrected?.....Jack Pierson was the soldier from Fremont county about whom the famous Ernie Pyle wrote.--W.F.