Frank Sisson and Robert Wise talk about their WWII military history book “I Marched With Patton” (William Morrow, 2020)

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Frank Sisson and Robert Wise talk about the WWII military history book “I Marched With Patton”

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Interview Summary

Frank Sisson joined the US Army in 1943 at the age of 18. He went into the artillery and fought in Europe alongside Patton’s forces. He wrote his memoir with Robert Wise and I spoke to them about Frank’s wartime experiences from Texas, to France, and finally on to Berlin where he ended his Army days working as a military policeman.

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1:08 – Frank and Robert talk about how the book was written.

2:02 – Frank talks about why he eventually agreed to writing a book on his time in WWII.

2:45 – Frank talks about how he joined the military when he turned 18.

3:51 – Frank talks about joining the artillery.

5:03 – Frank talks about what he was doing when Pearl Harbor was bombed and how people felt about the war.

6:12 – Frank talks about training at Fort Sill and in Texas and then going to Europe.

7:24 – Frank talks not wanting to live on the ocean.

(NOTE: 8:06: The audio was temporarily static y.)

8:06 – Frank talks about his time in the artillery.

9:57 – (Audio issues end): Frank talks about how nervous it was going to war.

11:23 – Frank talks about landing in Saint Lo France.

14:09 – Frank talks about his feelings about the Nazis. He also talks about

speaking French and German.

16:13 – Frank talks about being in the Ardennes Forest. He saw Patton, Bradley, and Eisenhower there.

19:45 – Frank talks about doing their work in freezing temperatures.

23:00 – Frank talks about an experience on the Rhine river being attacked by black jet airplanes.

25:21 – Frank talks about crossing the Rhine.

25:26 – Frank talks about being a policeman in Berlin and dealing with the Russians. He mentions an event where he had to arrest a drunken Russian general and his drunken driver.

30:28 – Frank talks about hearing a profanity laced speech from Patton. He also discusses his own truck driver.

33:41 – Frank talks about being in Berlin after the German surrender.

34:40 – Frank talks about seeing Jewish prisoners of war being moved.

36:12 – Frank talks about how he became a police officer. He talks about a grisly discovery he made at the morgue.

40:32 – Frank talks about getting along with his officer supervisor in the military police.

41:24 – Frank talks about enjoying hearing the artillery guns going.

42:36 – Frank talks about being the boss in the military police and that he liked Berlin.

44:42 – Frank talks about war souvenirs.

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Guests: Frank Sisson and Robert Wise

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: Books, audio interviews, author, podcast, William Morrow, WWII, United States, Germany, Russia, France,

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