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I was by this time part of a combat intelligence unit in the 128th infantry regiment, one of three infantry regiments in the division, the others being the 126th and 127th. By now I had also acquired some good friends, who had been with me since Camp Roberts. Herman Bottcher was a battlehardened veteran of the Spanish Civil War, who had known my brother Bill at San Francisco State College some years before. He was a German who had escaped before Hitler took 28 / Red Arrows Never Glance over. He had become an American citizen and served in the Abraham Lincoln battalion of the International Brigade of the Spanish republic during the war against General Franco and the Fascist army.
At Lowell there were many flamboyant females and some even sat at desks next to me. Fascinated by them, I dreaded making a fool of myself. I had no confidence in my masculine charm for the simple reason that I had none. I was a scrawny little kid with glasses, slow to mature and not putting on any real height growth until my senior year. So I shut up and took low grades in any course that demanded oral participation. School, the Woods, and War / 19 When I finally graduated the school counselor told me that my grades were so bad that I should not even think of going to college.
He was a courageous man and may have led the first flame thrower assault in World War II. Unfortunately the flame thrower, which had worked well behind the lines, malfunctioned. Instead of being protected by a wall of flame as he ran forward, his device simply piddled out a small stream of napalm that did not come close to reaching the bunkers. He was shot, fortunately not fatally, but his heroic attack failed. Back in the Australian guerrilla warfare training camp we had attended, King and I had been shown how to increase the damaging power of a grenade by placing it in a jam tin packed around with gelignite.