The Waffen-SS 14th Grenadier Division "Galicia". 1943–1945

Michael O. Logusz

Colonel Michael Orest Logush (retired) is a military historian with 30 years of service in the regular US Army and its reserve. He was born in Syracuse, New York, in a family of emigrants from Ukraine. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oswego College, New York, and a Master of Arts degree in Russian-Soviet Studies from Hunter College, New York City. Logush underwent Army Basic Training and the US Army Military Police Academy in Fort McClellan, Alabama. He is a graduate of: the Sergeant Academy in Fort Knox, Kentucky; Officer Candidate School in Fort Benning, Georgia; the Armored Officers Basic and Armor Officers Advanced School also in Forth Knox; the U.S. Army Airborne (paratrooper) and Air Transport School of the U.S. Air Force school in Fort Benning; and various other officer schools to include the Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He served in West Point, New York; the 18th Airborne Corps of the Rapid Deployment Force (RDF), and participated in operation«Joint Endeavor» (Balkans, 1996) and «Iraqi Freedom» (2008‒2009). In 2006, served as an instructor at the NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany. He now resides in upstate New York, is engaged in the forestry business and is restoring a trapper's house from the middle of the 18th century in the middle of the forest. In addition to research on the Galicia Division, he is the author of several books on the history of the American Revolutionary War. More details