Rants and Death Traps

The_Chieftain: This conversation has made it to Zaloga's ears.    You will recall he addresses Cooper a little bit in OTT, Timestamp 15 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oLY4FOrnjc#t=902   However, he mailed me this this morning, for posting at my request for his opinion.   "I think that the basic point that people forget about Belton Cooper’s memoirs was that they were written decades after the event. On the occasions I spoke to him, his memories of some of his experiences were quite sharp, but he had no recollections at all of many other aspects of the 3rd Armored Division in 1944-45. I also got the impression that he conflated his own memories with stories that he had heard from military history buffs that he knew. On top of this, “Death Traps” was ghost-written with Mike Bennighof. Cooper’s memoirs are very interesting, but they have some significant issues."