Ross S. Carter served with Company C, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division in World War II. He survived heavy combat in Sicily, Italy, France,Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Of the original forty men in Ross' platoon that deployed to Europe in the spring of 1943 only Ross,and two other soldiers, remained in the ranks when Germany surrendered on May 9, 1945. Among his many awards is the Silver Star. He wrote "Those Devils In Baggy Pants" shortly after the war ended. He died from Cancer in 1947 at the age of twenty-eight. "Those Devils in Baggy Pants" is considered to be one of the finest World War II autobiographies ever published.