Manhattan Soldier

There was a war on then, a bloody, bloody war in 1943. Gary Stone more than several years a shoe shine boy on Broadway and the bars on Columbus Avenue and he has volunteered. His mother of Irish immigrant heritage has but one thought that her son continue to live. How does he do the first year in the US Army? .Indeed war was raging in Europe with Hitler and his Swastika and blitzkrieg on the march and the Allied invasion and landing in Europe on the beckoning.