….Of all the traits of the World War II generation, perhaps the most impressive some 60 years later is the ability to make do, no matter the circumstances, and with little ceremony at that.
That theme echoes throughout author Terry Frei’s thoroughly researched and ardently objective book “Third Down and a War to Go,” a chronicle of the 1942 Badgers’ rapid transition from carefree college clashes against Notre Dame and Minnesota to battling Nazi Germany and imperial Japan.