Assignment to Hell (85 page)

Stevens, Kermit D., 8

Stewart, Jimmy, 160, 162–63

Stewart, Ollie, 91

Stockton, Don, 156–58, 459

Stoneman, William, 255, 292

Story of G.I. Joe, The
(movie), 260, 264–66

Strait of Messina, 208–9, 221

Strategic bombing, 126, 155, 173

Stripp, George E., 340–41

Struggle for Europe, The
(Wilmot), 173

Stuka dive-bombers, 103, 105

Stultz, Irwin, 58–60

Sturmstaffeln
(“storm squadrons”), 163

Submarine warfare, 4, 53–54, 60, 69–71, 80, 82, 83, 87–88, 267

Suez Canal, 77, 104

Sulzberger, Arthur, 149

Summers, William B., 411

Summersby, Kay, 135

Tabacchificio Fioche, Italy, 222

Talese, Gay, 460

Taormina, Sicily, 208

Tarawa, 302, 448

Task Force 34, 78–79, 81–83, 89

Taves, Brydon, 4

Taylor, Maxwell, 383, 421–23, 429

Tebbel, John, 449

Tedder, Sir Arthur, 173

Tedrow, Odell, 188–90

Thekla slave labor camp, 433, 446

Thélepte, Tunisia, 98–100, 109

Thobro, Clayton C., 340

Thompson, Jack “The Bear,” 26, 110, 292, 431–32, 434, 437, 449

Thrasher, Charles B., 228

Thurber, James, 447

Thurleigh air base, England, 128, 133, 159, 164, 248

Tibenham air base, England, 162, 163

Tiger tanks, 184, 389, 419, 421, 428

Time
, 91, 177, 373–74

Tojo, Hideki, 52–53

Tokyo, Doolittle raid on, 53, 118

Torpedo Junction, 4

Toulon, France, 338, 340

Treanor, Tom, 26, 177, 182, 185–87, 260, 264, 266, 358–59, 373

Tregaskis, Richard, 425

Trillin, Calvin, 451

Triumph of the Will
(movie), 446

Troina, Sicily, 99

Truman, Harry S, 40

Truscott, Lucian, 75, 84, 86, 87, 179, 184, 185, 188, 195, 202

Tulagi, 81

Tunisia, 75, 82, 92, 93, 98–100, 101, 103–9, 112–16

Turkey, 218, 224

Turner, Lana, 162–63

Twelve O’Clock High
(movie), 175–76

Typographical Error
(B-26 Marauder), 168

Tyrrhenian Sea, 177, 183, 186, 208, 221, 236

Ugalde, Jesse, 180

Ulidjak. Mrs., 115–16

Ultra machine, 103, 193, 329, 417

Umphress, F. E. Jr., 4, 21

United Press (UP), 2, 4, 6, 7, 22, 26, 42, 43, 56, 62, 80, 81, 88–90, 119, 131, 133–35, 147, 148, 155, 201, 242, 244, 246–47, 253, 254, 260, 269, 279, 280, 292, 293, 398, 422, 426, 444, 445

U.S.-Canadian Devil’s Brigade, 337

U.S. Coast Guard, 9, 10, 12

U.S. War Department, 52, 56

Unterseebooten
(U-boats), 4, 53–54, 60, 69–71, 80, 82, 83, 87–88, 267, 405–6

USS
Arkansas
, 56–62, 69, 79

USS
Augusta
, 23, 267

USS
Brooklyn
, 60, 63

USS
Chenango
, 83

USS
Dallas
, 86

USS
Massachusetts
, 80, 88

USS
Missouri
, 203, 441

USS
Monrovia
, 192, 194–96

USS
Philadelphia
, 178, 184–86, 189

USS
Roe
, 58–59

USS
Savannah
, 83

USS
Texas
, 4, 79, 81–86, 88–89

Utah Beach, 15, 16, 24–25, 270, 272

V-1 and V-2 rockets, 272, 281–84, 286, 403, 436

V-E Day, 438, 442

V-J Day, 442

Valognes, France, 271–72, 323

Vanity Fair
, 367

Vannes, France, 322–23

Vatican, 335

Vegesack submarine yard, Germany, 150–53

Venray, Holland, 390

Vessels, Jay, 222, 223

Veterans of Foreign Wars, 449

Vichy French, 76, 82, 92–93, 101, 112, 343, 344, 363, 371

Vietnam War, 450, 453–54, 456

Vire, France, 333

Vire River, 302

Vittoria, Sicily, 199

Volk, Harry, 406, 407

Volturno River, 218

Vouilly, France, 291–96, 307–14, 333, 345, 458–59, 460

Waco gliders, 379

Wade, Betsy, 34, 193, 209, 453

Wade, William, 133, 143

Wagner, Walter W., 181, 183

Wakefield
(naval transport), 63–64, 79, 90

Walker, Fred L., 215

Wallach, Eli, 41

Warner, Karl C., 115–16

Washington Post
, 96, 108

Waskow, Henry, 230, 265

Wassau, Hinda, 42–43

Watson, Jack, 5, 443–44

Watson, Theodore, 418

Weaver, Frances, 175

Weaver, Tyre, 174–76

Weber, William C., 215–16

Wellington bombers, 315

Wellman, William, 264–65

Werner, Doug, 131, 269

Wertenbaker, Charles, 373–74

White, E. B., 447

White, Katharine S., 30, 31

White, Wesley, 395

Whitehead, Don, 10, 26, 39, 75, 94, 177, 182, 184, 186, 187, 196, 197, 230–34, 260, 264–66, 268, 269, 272–75, 280, 288, 289, 359–62, 364, 439, 451

Whitehead, Marie, 264, 451

Whitman, Walt, 111

Whitney, John Hay “Jock,” 135, 155

Wilder, Roy, Jr., 30, 267, 323, 333, 345, 346, 357

Wilhelmina Canal, Holland, 380, 384, 389

Wilhelmshaven submarine yard, Germany, 122, 123, 143–49, 246, 256, 351, 455

Wilmot, Chester, 52, 173, 221, 243, 381

Wing and a Prayer, A
(movie), 159

Winter Line, 217

Wise, Ben, 393

Wolfe, Tom, 457, 460

Women’s Auxiliary of the Brush-off Club, 230

Wood, Edward W., 302

Woodward, Stanley, 383–84

World War I, 53, 67, 102, 136, 171, 215, 218, 224, 329, 336, 390, 400, 417, 444

Wright, Ben, 285

Writing 69th, 26, 27, 135–36, 138–43, 148–49, 351, 449

Wyler, William, 65, 138, 141, 160, 162, 165

Yank
magazine, 133

Zamperini, Lou, 424

Zera, Maxie, 439

Zhadov, Alexei, 435

Zon, Holland, 378, 381, 383

All five reporters went on combat missions in the skies over the Reich. Bigart, Cronkite, and Rooney flew on B-17s, which drew ferocious flak as they neared their targets. Cronkite was aboard the B-17
Shoo Shoo Baby
on D-Day morning over Caen, Normandy.

Rooney, Bigart, and Cronkite all covered the savage raids against Nazi munitions factories. On October 9, 1943, B-17 bombers attacked a Focke-Wulf 190 factory near Marienburg in East Prussia.

Rooney (
standing, left
) was a more cheerful soul after joining
Stars and Stripes
in London in late 1942. His articles saluted the unsung heroes behind the scenes of the USAAF’s air war against the Nazis.

Rooney (
left
) poses with a crew from the
Mission Belle
, a bomber with the 385th Bomb Group, stationed in Great Ashfield, England. Rooney called air bases “damned depressing places to visit”; three-fourths of the U.S. airmen who flew on bombing missions in 1943 and the first half of 1944 became casualties of one kind or another.

Rooney stops to smell some flowers while leaning against heavy bombs stored at an airfield, probably at Thurleigh. He chose this photo as the cover for his memoir,
My War
.

The London edition of
Stars and Stripes
was essentially a USAAF journal from late 1942 through early 1944. Rooney’s mentor and writing partner, Bud Hutton, is on the left, Andy’s great pal Charlie Kiley in the middle.