David Fitz-Enz

A regular army officer for thirty years, paratrooper & aviator in Vietnam as a combat photography platoon leader173rd Airborne Infantry and later Communications Officer 1/10 Calvary, 4th infantry Div. Among decorations is the Soldiers' Medal for life saving, the Bronze Star for Valor, 4 oak leaf clusters and Air Medal for sustained aerial combat. Brigade commander 1101st Signal which operated the Moscow Hotline for three presidents, Inspector General, Communications officer General Haig's airborne command post, Army War College graduate, Chief of Staff Defense Communications Agency, & special assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe. Author of 'Why A Soldier", memoir of a combat photographer, 'The Final Invasion' winner of the Distinguished Writing Prize, Army Historical Foundation, & the Military Order of Saint Louis, Knights Templar, Priory of St. Patrick, Manhattan, 'Old Ironsides, Eagle of the Sea', the novel 'Redcoats Revenge, and "Hacks, Sycophants, Adventurers & Heroes, Madison's commanders in the War of 1812'. I am a guest lecturer at the National Army Museum, London England, the Library of Congress and the National Archives, heard on "Here & Now" WGBH Boston, and appeared four times on C-Span Book TV. Presently writing a spy thriller on WW I & II.