and decorations His list of authorized medals and decorations are: Bronze Star Medal Purple Heart with one oak leaf cluster Good Conduct Medal European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with Arrowhead and 4 service stars World War II Victory Medal Army of Occupation Medal Presidential Unit Citation with one Oak Leaf Cluster Combat Infantryman Badge Parachutist Badge with 2 jump stars Later years Webster was the last of the surviving Camp Toccoa veterans who had fought in Normandy to be sent home after the surrender of Nazi Germany. When he was discharged in 1945, he returned to work as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Daily News. Webster took up sailing and fishing and made a hobby of studying oceanography and marine biology. During those years he worked on his wartime memoirs and occasionally approached magazines with article proposals related to his war service, but he never attempted to publish a full treatment of his experiences in the 101st Airborne Division. Webster married Barbara Jean Stoessell in 1952, and had three children. His interest in sharks led him to write a book on the subject entitled Myth and Maneater: The Story of the Shark. Lost at sea On September 9, 1961, Webster embarked on a fishing trip in a twelve-foot sailboat, leaving in the morning and planning to come back in the afternoon. When he failed to return, the Coast Guard embarked on a search. Early the following day, commercial fishermen recovered his boat five miles offshore. One oar and a tiller were missing. His wife told the press that Webster went shark-fishing in the small craft and did not use a life preserver. At the time of his death he was employed as a technical writer with System Development Corp. Legacy Except for a few short stories in magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post, Webster's wartime diary and thoughts remained unpublished at the time of his death. However, Stephen Ambrose, a tenured University of Louisiana System professor of history (specifically, at the University of New Orleans) who had studied Webster's writings, was so impressed by the historical value of Webster's unpublished papers that the professor encouraged Webster's widow to submit the writing package to LSU Press. She did so, and a book was published, with Ambrose's foreword, by LSU in 1994. Titled Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the