degree in 1946–1947, married fellow Pomona graduate Betty Harper in 1949, and completed his MA (1949) and PhD (1952) at Harvard University. He was honorably discharged from the Army in 1946, returned to Pomona to finish his B.A. Fussell's recollection of hearing the news of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while waiting stateside to deploy, would later form the basis of his essay "Thank God for the Atom Bomb". Following the end of the war in Europe, Fussell returned to the United States where he was assigned to the 45th Infantry Division, which was preparing for the invasion of Japan. He landed in France in 1944 as a 20-year-old second lieutenant with the 103rd Infantry Division, was wounded while fighting in Alsace, and was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. His son, Samuel Wilson Fussell, a writer and hunter in Montana, is the author of Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder.įussell attended Pomona College from 1941 until he was commissioned as an officer in the United States Army in 1943. His daughter, Rosalind, is an artist-teacher in Arizona and the author of a graphic novel, Mammoir: A Pictorial Odyssey of the Adventures of a Fourth Grade Teacher with Breast Cancer.
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