Dangerous Assignment: An Artillery Forward Observer in World War IIRare memoir of a risky job performed by relatively few troopsHonest and observant narrative describes the good, bad, and ugly of the warCovers World War II's closing months in eastern France and GermanyCpl. Bill Hanford had one of the U. S. Army's most dangerous jobs in World War II: artillery forward observer (FO). Tasked with calling in heavy fire on the enemy, FOs accompanied infantrymen into combat, crawled into no man's land, and ascended