John C. McManus Shares a Big Red One Medic's Story
Author of The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach shares a D-Day story.
John C. McManus earned a PhD in American and Military History from the University of Tennessee, where he served as Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of War and Society and was a Normandy Scholar. As a leading authority on the Normandy invasion, he holds a Cantigny First Division Museum Fellowship. He is currently a full professor of U.S. Military History at Missouri University of Science and Technology, where he teaches a variety of courses, including one on World War II and another on the Modern American Combat Experience. McManus also serves as the official historian for the United States Army’s Seventh Infantry Regiment.