Are there any articles relating to Sgt. Kovak anywhere?
In the meantime, Sgt. Murphy, recovering from his bout with malaria, joined his company on the beachhead. He arrived in time to lead a night reconnaissance patrol into the German lines, and to learn that one of his closest friends has died. “A spasm of loneliness seizes me,” he wrote, “I am not one to question the way of things, but, almighty God, why did it have to be Little Mike?” Mike Novak was a fictionalized version of Murph’s friend Joe Sieja.
