Unless Victory ComesBy: Gene Garrison, Patrick Gilbert A vivid, boots on the ground memoir of World War II by an infantryman in General Pattons army, from the Battle of the Bulge to Germanys defeat On December 19, 1944, Gene Garrison turned nineteen. He spent his birthday in a muddy foxhole, listening to the cries of wounded comrades while exploding artillery shells sent shrapnel raining down on him and the enemy prepared to attack. It was his first day in combat. Unless