Speaking @ American Swedish Institute (Oct 10 - 1:00 pm)

In Sunday Sep 23rd Minneapolis Star Tribune Newspaper

CLICK HERE:

www.startribune.com/mountain-lake-minn-tailor-shares-his-wwii-memories/494044371

Book Review in the Arlington, VA Zebra

Minneapolis Bookstore Magers & Quinn - June 20 7:00 pm

Presentation / Book Signing June 20th at Minneapolis Bookstore

Minnesota Book Presentation and Signing Events in June

June 20 - Speaking Event and Book Signing - Rochester, Minnesota

Wednesday, June 20    10:30 am   Madonna Towers Auditorium, 4001 19th Avenue NW, Rochester

                 www.madonnalivingcommunity.org

June 16 - 2:00 pm - Presentation at Cottonwood County Museum in Windom, Minnesota

1972 Lois, Bayer, David, Jon, and Steven

Bayer's Mother Came From Hudiksvall, Sweden

Bayer's Father Came From Malmo, Sweden

But it didn't look like this in 1902

I CLOSED TOO MANY EYES Being Sold at the American Swedish Institute

Book Trailer (Click on FULL SCREEN once started)

1944 Don and Lee Taking a Break

16th Infantry Regiment Medics in England Just Before D-Day

Another German Propaganda Leaflet Bayer Brought Home From WWII

New Enlistees at the Cottonwood County MN Courthouse (1942)

Bayer in the front row, second from left.

German Propaganda Leaflet Bayer Brought Home from Germany

1944 D-Day - Injured Soldiers from 16th Infantry Regiment

 Waiting by the Chalk Cliffs for evacuation to a field hospital for further medical treatment, 

Collville-sur-Mer Normandy 6 Jun 1944

Photo from National Archives

V-Mail to Brother Don - February 11, 1944

Another German Leaflet Bayer Brought Home

Johnny Olson of THE PRICE IS RIGHT

Johnny Olson was one of the most famous announcers on television.  Bayer knew him and his father when they lived in Windom, Minnesota.  How did that happen?  It's explained in the book.

Bayer's Brother -Don Ross- Interview From 2014

In the FAMILY SCRAPBOOK portion of the book there is a link to a 48-minute video recording (made in 2014) of Don Ross reminiscing about the "Good Old Days".  For some reason the tinyurl link was inadvertently removed from YouTube,  Here is a new link that seems to be working just fine.
Give it a try:
www.tinyurl.com/bayerross38

In Mountain Lake OBSERVER Today

Don and Lee Ross at the Grave of His Parents

I Closed Too Many Eyes - Table of Contents

Mountain Lake, Minnesota 1909

Mountain Lake's New Hiebert & Franz Store 1940

Medic ID Card

WWII Medic Training

In my research for the book on my brother-in-law, Bayer Ross, I was amazed how fast his medic training was.  The Army was obviously caught off guard when Pearl Harbor happened and they knew thousands of medics would be needed in both Europe and the Pacific.  The European Theater medical establishment eventually grew to over 170,000 enlisted men.