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The Forgotten Battalion
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Author : Bill Edmonds
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2010-04
The Forgotten Battalion written by Bill Edmonds and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
At the induction center brave men fainted at the sight of doctors in white coats armed with needles. We were dumped into a Texas inferno where salesmen, clerks and teachers were transformed into ferocious fighting men, none so fierce however as the cooks who waved their butcher knives and screamed at defenseless K P s. Later we tasted the real hazards of war at an advanced infantry training camp: bullets, grenades, bazookas and forced marches in pouring rains, risking pneumonia in a winter wasteland of mud and slush. In spite of these harsh conditions I won a quarter mile race and was rewarded with a beautiful brunette. Soon we were off, not to Europe or the Pacific but to Arkansas to form a new battalion of Combat Engineers and train for a suicide mission: To slow the advance of charging Panzers. One trainees, on guard duty, managed to slow the advance of a milk truck. We adopted a Little Rock bar as our own and later cloned it in England, France, and Germany. When we finally embarked for overseas we were so tough only one man became seasick on the Staten Island Ferry. Our health was checked as we ran past examining doctors to board a ship. Off to England we went, where some men soon learned about the unique sex habits of the kind of English women who welcome foreign soldiers into their arms. On to France, aboard a truly sickening Landing Ship for Tanks. I witnessed the Battle of the Bulge from a safe distance of fifty miles, while guarding a dark intersection in Picardy. I was apprehended by a trigger happy M P who thought I was a Nazi spy. There were no charging Panzers after that and we sulked in dull unemployment. All this time we hated Warrant Officer Spode but, strangely, no one ever shot him. I encountered a charming angel in a drab mining town who taught me to love France. We crossed the Rhine in triumph, actually in the back of a truck, and soon I almost got shot in the men’s room of a German restaurant. Joe was the shooter’s name, and screwing up was his game. And finally the big wreaker driver, Bubba, discovered that a French woman can give birth to a big, beautiful, baby only six months after the affaire. The dupe actually handed out cigars, but abandoned his potential war bride to return, with his stolen French dog, to Coon Hollow and his remarkable mule. (Lucky for Her!)
The Lost Battalion
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Author : Thomas Marvin Johnson
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01
The Lost Battalion written by Thomas Marvin Johnson and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with History categories.
Originaly publishied: 1st edition Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1938.
5 Aust M G Bn A I F Torres Strait Force
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
5 Aust M G Bn A I F Torres Strait Force written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Five Days In October
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Author : Robert H. Ferrell
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2005
Five Days In October written by Robert H. Ferrell and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
During American participation in World War I, many events caught the public's attention, but none so much as the plight of the Lost Battalion. Comprising some five hundred men of the Seventy-seventh Division, the so-called battalion was entrapped on the side of a ravine in the Argonne Forest by German forces from October 2 to 7, 1918. The men's courage under siege in the midst of rifle, machine-gun, mortar, and artillery fire (coming both day and night), with nothing to eat after the morning of the first day save grass and roots, and with water dangerous to obtain, has gone down in American history as comparable in heroism to the defense of the Alamo and the stand at the Little Big Horn of the troops of General George A. Custer. Now, in Five Days in October, historian Robert H. Ferrell presents new material-previously unavailable-about what really happened during those days in the forest. Despite the description of them as a lost battalion, the men were neither lost nor a battalion. The name was coined by a New York newspaper editor who, upon learning that a sizable body of troops had been surrounded, thought up the notion of a Lost Battalion-it possessed a ring sure to catch the attention of readers. The trapped men actually belonged to companies from two battalions of the Seventy-seventh, and their exact placement was well known, reported by runners at the outset of the action and by six carrier pigeons released by their commander, Major Charles W. Whittlesey, during the five days his men were there. The causes of the entrapment were several, including command failures and tactical errors. The men had been sent ahead of the main division line without attention to flanks, and because of that failure, they were surrounded. Thus began a siege that took the lives of many men, leading to the collapse of the colonel of the 308th Infantry Regiment and, many believe, to the suicide of Major Whittlesey three years later. This book grew out of Ferrell's discovery of new material in the U.S. Army Military History Institute at the Army War College from the papers of General Hugh A. Drum and in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. The Drum papers contain the court-martial record of the lieutenant of a machine-gun unit attached to the battalions, who advised Major Whittlesey to surrender, while the Seventy-seventh Division files contain full accounts of the taut relations between the Lost Battalion's brigade commander and the Seventy-seventh's division commander. By including this material, Ferrell gives a new accounting of this intriguing affair. Five Days in October will be welcomed by all those interested in a fuller understanding of the story of the Lost Battalion.
History And Rhymes Of The Lost Battalion
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Author : McCollum Lee Charles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
History And Rhymes Of The Lost Battalion written by McCollum Lee Charles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
Lost Battalion Of Tet
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Author : Charles A Krohn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-09-15
Lost Battalion Of Tet written by Charles A Krohn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-15 with categories.
Published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, this new paperback edition brings back into print a book that became an essential source for a 2006 study of the battle by the U.S. Army s Center of Military History. It takes a critical look at what went wrong in early 1968 during one of the first engagements of Tet, when a U.S. infantry battalion was ordered to attack a large North Vietnamese force near Hue City without air or artillery support. The tragic military foul-up resulted in over 60 percent casualties for the 2d Battalion, 12th Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, when the soldiers were surrounded by the enemy and began running out of ammunition. The bold decision by battalion commander Lt. Col. Richard Sweet to break out with his remaining soldiers under cover of darkness saved this encirclement from being a total disaster. Author Charles Krohn, the unit s intelligence officer at the time, provides a much-needed analysis of what took place and fills his account with details that have been confirmed as factual by other survivors. Krohn examines the battalion s involvement in two other major attacks for lessons learned when vital systems break down lessons, he says, that are timeless and applicable anywhere. This book is published in cooperation with the Association of the United States Army.
History And Rhymes Of The Lost Battalion
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Author : Lee Charles McCollum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
History And Rhymes Of The Lost Battalion written by Lee Charles McCollum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with European War, 1914-1918 categories.
The Lost Battalion
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Author : Robert J Laplander
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-10-21
The Lost Battalion written by Robert J Laplander and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-21 with categories.
Much has been written about the famous 'Lost Battalion' of WW1, but few personal stories by the men who were there have ever been widely distributed. Now, Lost Battalion and 77th Division historian and author Robert J. Laplander changes all that in 'The Lost Battalion: As They Saw It'. Drawing on his 25+ years' worth of research into the event, the world's leading authority on the subject presents 31 stories by those who were there, told in their own words. From high ranking officers on down to the lowliest private, it's all here described in their own way; what they saw, what they heard, how they felt - and what it did to some of them afterwards. Often moving and occasionally terrifying, these stories paint a broad mosaic of their experiences, colored by their own backgrounds and personalities. For those seeking to understand the Lost Battalion event in a more direct way, as the men themselves understood it, this volume with be a welcome addition to their library. However, for all it is a wonderful and interesting peek into one of the most famous events of World War One!
Lost Battalion
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Author : HOLLIS G. ALLEN.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Lost Battalion written by HOLLIS G. ALLEN. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
History And Rhymes Of The Lost Battalion
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Author : Buck Private McCollum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000-10
History And Rhymes Of The Lost Battalion written by Buck Private McCollum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10 with History categories.
