The Moonlight Cavalry - Paperback

by Lynn Ellen Doxon (Author)

A soldier's journey through hell and back in the Pacific Theater.

Lieutenant Gene Sinclair never imagined war would be like this. Training is over, and Gene begins the Pacific island hopping that will mature and harden him, and all the other GIs. Attached to the 24th Infantry Division, Gene's anti-aircraft unit stays close to the front lines of the war. He soon meets all that World War II can throw at him: accidents, injury, typhoons, supply shortages, hallucination-filled malaria, and the death of his friends.

All the while Gene tries to hold onto the love of his life, Sarah Gale, through the tenuous lifeline of infrequent letters. Sarah Gale is on her own journey as a WAC photo interpreter and faces her own dangers that Gene cannot prevent when she's posted to China. Through it all Gene develops the fortitude to lead his battery and survive this hell on earth. That is, until a special mission almost proves to be Gene's undoing.

Author Biography

Lynn started writing in 2nd grade, although she made up stories from the time she learned to talk. Her books relate to a different part of her life. The Greatest Generation Series is loosely based on her father's experience in World War II. Lynn lives amid a permaculture food forest in Albuquerque with her husband, the three youngest of their six children, her 98 year old mother, four cats, three dogs, two fish and one hermit crab.