Finding The Lost Ranger.
What it took to find the Lost Ranger.
Author with son and brother
S/Sgt Hull's wounds and post war experience.
The remainder of the book discusses what happened to S/Sgt Hull after being wounded in France. Follow him as he gets treated in France, England and the United States. Learn how he got married, had a family and became a police officer. Understand the events that led to his death and becoming lost to history.
These are the remaining members of B Company by the end of the war
Members of B Company, such as Elmo Banning were killed on D-Day
These are the remaining members of B Company by the end of the war
Loss of Rangers to unit.
By war's end, the 5th Ranger Infantry Battalion had suffered horrible losses. This resulted in men becoming forgotten as others took their place.
In 2013, Ranger Randall Ching embarked on a personal journey with the author to find his friend, S/Sgt Hull and to restore him to history. Ranger Ching, along with his fellow Rangers, MG John C Raaen, Jr, Richard Felix and JR Copeland performed one last mission to not leave a fallen comrade behind.
Finding the Lost Ranger amidst the ravage of time.
In the years following the war, the government purged military records on more than one occasion resulting in a loss of S/Sgt Hull to available unit records. The tragic 1974 fire at the National Personnel Records Center also resulted in a loss of his service when his military records completely burned. It was as a result of finding partial records through the VA and reconstructed records that allowed the initial finding of this Lost Ranger. Serious effort had to be invested in finding him.