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Transportation and Logistics: One Man's Story. Jack C. Fuson, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994, 227 pages.
Lieutenant General Jack Fuson (1920-2004) entered the U.S. Army under unusual circumstances during World War II. In Transportation and Logistics: One Man 's Story, Fuson recalls a fascinating story of how the Army adapted to rapidly changing circumstances and demands during a series of wars and police actions over his 35 years of service, which ended with his retirement in 1976. Every logistician would profit from reading this tightly written account of Fuson 's career.
Fuson began his service in May 1942 and participated in the birth and development of the Engineer Amphibious Command. The command was created out of nothing more than a vague mission statement. The Engineer Amphibious Command matured as it served in the Southwest Pacific Theater in support of General Douglas MacArthur's "leapfrogging" campaign from Australia toward the Philippines.
At the end of World War II, Fuson went to...