Those Devils In Baggy Pants is the classic portrayal of the life of Company C of the 504 Parachute Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division. Carter participated in every major campaign that the 504th was involved with from Sicily in 1943 to the end of the war in Germany in May of 1945.

Ross S. Carter served with Company C, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division in World War II. He survived heavy combat in Sicily, Italy, France,Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Of the original forty men in Ross's platoon that deployed to Europe in the spring of 1943 only Ross ,and two other soldiers , remained in the ranks when Germany surrendered on May 9, 1945. Among his many awards is the Silver Star. He wrote "Those Devils In Baggy Pants" shortly after the war ended. He died from Cancer in 1947 at the age of twenty-eight.

"Those Devils in Baggy Pants" is considered to be one of the finest World War II autobiographies ever published. 

The title was used for a 2001 half hour "mockumentary" that mixed interviews with the few survivors of the 82nd Airborne, news reels and mock battles filmed with cameras used during WWII.