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basic training
Berchtesgaden (Germany)
coming home
dog problem in Hagenau (France)
family of
freedom, lives in
future that nobody could prepare for
Hagenau (France)
heroism, thoughts on
Bond, Don (
cont.
)
night jumps
Pearl Harbor and enlisting
Phenix City (Alabama) fights
phone lines in Hagenau (France)
SS troops, executing
tangled chutes incident
war, fighting to win
Boyle, Lee
Boyle, William (Major)
Boy Scouts
Bremerhaven (Germany)
Brereton, Lewis (Lieutenant General)
Brewer, Bob (Lieutenant)
Bronze Star recipients
brothers, Easy Company
Brotherton, Marcus
B-stage, jump school
Buchloe (Germany)
burlap sacks vs. boots
Caballero, Armando C.
camaraderie
campaigns of Easy Company
Camp Beauregard (Louisiana)
Campbell, John
Camp Blanding (Florida)
Camp Croft (South Carolina)
Campezi, Phil
Camp Mackall (North Carolina)
Camp McCoy (Wisconsin)
Camp Roberts (California)
Camp Shanks (New York)
Camp Stockton (California)
Camp Toccoa (Georgia).
See also
training
Camp Walters (Texas)
Capelluto, Harold (First Lieutenant)
Carentan (France).
See also
Operation
Market Garden (Holland)
Carson, Gordy (Sergeant)
casualties and wounded
Bastogne (Belgium)
Carentan (France)
Foy (Belgium)
killed in action
Normandy (D-day)
Operation Market Garden (Holland)
Chase, Elly
Château-Thierry (France)
Chilton-Foliat Jump School
Christenson, Burton Pat
Churchill, Winston (British Prime Minister)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Clark, Max
Collins, Herman (T/5)
Cologne or Köln (Germany)
combat machines, men as
coming home.
See also
freedom, lives in
Compton, Buck (Lieutenant)
concentration camps (German)
Coombs, James
Coombs, Tex
Cox (Corporal)
Croix de Guerre recipients
C-stage, jump school
Currahee run, Camp Toccoa (Georgia)
Dachau work camps (Germany)
deactivation of Easy Company
Dead Man’s Corner, Carentan (France)
Depression (USA)
“determination is the answer,”
Dietrich, Marlene
Dike, Norman
discharge, point system for
draft (USA)
D-stage, jump school
Dufour, Pearl
Dukeman, Bill
Dutch support of Americans
Eagle’s Nest, Berchtesgaden (Germany)
Early, Stephen
Easy Companyh Parachute Infantry
Regimentt Airborne.
See also
casualties
and wounded; paratroopers (airborne);
specific
members of Easy Company
; training; United
States of America; World War II
Aldbourne (England)
Atlantic crossings
Austria, last duties in
average soldier vs. Easy Company
background of soldiers in
basic training
Bastogne (Belgium)
Berchtesgaden (Germany)
brothers
campaigns
Camp Toccoa (Georgia)
Carentan (France)
combat machines, men as
coming home
deactivation of
elite, experimental fighting unit
Foy (Belgium)
freedom, lives in
future that nobody could prepare for
Hagenau (France)
heroism, thoughts on
individuals, men as
known members of
memories of my father
Normandy (D-day)
Operation Market Garden (Holland)
Pearl Harbor and enlisting
perspective
poker playing
replacements
reunions
R&R in England
R&R in Mourmelon (France)
spirit of
transfers
young lions, east
young lions, west
82nd Airborne Division
Eindhoven (Netherlands)
Eisenhower, Dwight (General)
elite, experimental fighting unit
Elliott, George (Private First Class)
England
Aldbourne
Americans treated by English
British 1st Airborne Division, Operation Market Garden (Holland)
British XII Corps, Operation Market Garden (Holland)
German spies and
rescue of wounded, Operation Market Garden (Holland)
R&R in
sergeants (English), training by
tea times during fighting (Operation Market Garden, Holland)
Eubanks, John
Evans, William (First Sergeant)
Fanelli, John (Second Lieutenant)
feet challenges in Bastogne (Belgium)
Fenstermaker, Carl
Filer, Shifty (Captain)
Finn. Susan
1st Airborne Division (British), Operation Market Garden (Holland)
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
See also
Easy Companyh Parachute Infantry
Regimentt Airborne
flight 66, Normandy (D-day)
Foley, Jack (Lieutenant)
Ford, Henry
Forester, Pop
Fort Belvoir (Virginia)
Fort Benning (Georgia)
Fort Bragg (North Carolina)
Fort Hood (Texas)
Fort Indiantown Gap (Pennsylvania)
Fort Lewis (Washington)
Fort MacArthur (California)
Fort McClellan (Alabama)
Fort McPherson (Georgia)
Fort Meade (Maryland)
Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery (California)
Fort Sheridan (Illinois)
Fort Sill (Oklahoma)
Fort Snelling (Minnesota)
Fort Walters (Texas)
Fouragere (Belgian) for 101st Airborne
439th Troop Carrier Group
Foy (Belgium).
See also
Hagenau (France)
France
Carentan
Hagenau
Mourmelon
Normandy
Frankfurt (Germany)
freedom.
See also
heroism, thoughts on
lives in
valuing
Freeman, Bradford
Friedman, Bernard (Sergeant)
future that nobody could prepare for
Garcia, Antonio (Private First Class)
Garrod, Dick
Gates, Roy (Second Lieutenant)
Atlantic crossings
Austria, last duties in
background of
basic training
Berchtesgaden (Germany)
coming home
concentration camps in Germany
freedom, lives in
future that nobody could prepare for
German panzer unit (mock-up) in Berchtesgaden (Germany)
GI Joe Day in New York
heroism, thoughts on
Pearl Harbor and enlisting
prisoners, escorting across Atlantic
ROTC
SS troops, executing
survivors vs. heroes
tangled chutes incident
GED for GIs
Germany
See also
Austria, last duties in; Berchtesgaden (Germany); Hitler, Adolf; World War II
American condition at Bastogne (Belgium), unaware of
American paratrooper impersonation at Normandy (D-day)
Berchtesgaden (Germany)
boots (hobnail)
buildings and homes in Germany, good condition of
concentration camps4
English Intelligence, German spies
guard duties, Americans alongside German MPs in Austria
hitching ride with Germans by Americans in Austria
land mine (“the castrator”)
leather on uniforms
Lugers captured by Americans
Marmion Farm (German headquarters and supply depot) battle
meeting a defeated aggressor
Nuremberg trials
“Nuts,” McAuliffe to German surrender demand at Bastogne (Belgium)
panzer unit (mock-up) at Berchtesgaden (Germany)
smelling Germans, ability to
“snowbanks” of German soldiers at Bastogne (Belgium)
soldier (boy) buried by Americans at Bastogne (Belgium)
SS troops, executions
surrendering by Germans
tanks
time over targets (TOTs) at Operation Market Garden (Holland)
U-boats
GI Bill
GI Joe Day in New York
Ginn, Jack
Goering, Hermann
Gomex, Rick
Gordon, Walter
Goslin
Grant, Cowboy
gratitude, living in
Gray, Everett
Gray, Tom
Gray Ladies (Red Cross)
Great Depression (USA)
Greenock (Scotland)
Gross (Captain)
Guarnere, Bill
Guth, Forrest (Sergeant)
Aldbourne (England)
Atlantic crossings
background of
Bastogne (Belgium)
business of fighting at Normandy (D-day)
Camp Toccoa (Georgia)
Carentan (France)
drop zone (Normandy-day), missed
family of
freedom, lives in
future that nobody could prepare for
Hagenau (France)
invincibility feeling
Normandy (D-day)
Operation Market Garden (Holland)
parents of dead, thinking of
Pearl Harbor and enlisting
pockets, sewing extra into uniforms
wounds
Hagenau (France).
See also
Germany, meeting a defeated aggressor
Hale, Earl (Sergeant)
Harper (Colonel)
Harris, Salty
Haw, Lord Haw
HBO
Heffron, Babe
Heineken beer factory, Operation Market Garden (Holland)
Hell’s Highway, Operation Market Garden (Holland)
Hemingway, Ernest and Jack
Hemingway, Margaux and Mariel
Hendricks, Walter “Babe,”
heroism, thoughts on
Heyliger, Fred “Moose” (Lieutenant)
Hitler, Adolf.
See also
Germany; World War II
atomic bomb and
Berchtesgaden (Germany)
suicide of
teehaus
Holland.
See
Operation Market Garden
Hoobler, Don
Huertgen Forest (Germany) church
individuals, men of Easy Company as
Iraq
Irish, Sherman (Sergeant)
Island, defending the, Operation Market Garden (Holland)
Japan.
See also
Pearl Harbor; World War II
atomic bombing of Japan
readiness vs. U.S.
Joigny (France)
Joint, Ed (Corporal)
Aldbourne (England)
Atlantic crossings
background of
basic training
Bastogne (Belgium)
family of
Foy (Belgium)
freedom, lives in
heroism, thoughts on
nightmares
Normandy (D-day)
Operation Market Garden (Holland)
Pearl Harbor and enlisting
jump school
Kaprun (Austria)
Kiehn, Bill
killed in action
King, Don
Kingseed (Colonel)
Klinken, Robert Van
known members of Easy Company
Königstein (Germany)
Koskimaki, George
Landsberg (Germany)
leg bags
Le Harve (France)
Leibgott, Joe
Lesniewski, Joe (Private First Class)
Air Force training
Aldbourne (England)
Atlantic crossings
background of
basic training
Bastogne (Belgium)
boxing team, Camp Stockton
Carentan (France)
coming home
faith of
family of
Foy (Belgium)
freedom, lives in
friends, losing
future that nobody could prepare for
heroism, thoughts on
Island, defending the (Holland)
“killed in action,”
morale at Bastogne (Belgium)
Normandy (D-day)
Operation Market Garden (Holland)
Pearl Harbor and enlisting
Polish underground trained by
retreating soldiers (American) at Bastogne (Belgium)
robbed at gunpoint
R&R in England
R&R in Mourmelon (France)
Russia as ally and enemy
singing group in Aldbourne (England)
wounds
Liberty Ships
Liebgott, Joe
Lipton, Carwood
Lowrey, Dewitt (Private First Class)
Atlantic crossings
background of
Camp Toccoa (Georgia)
Carentan (France)
dog (“Draftee”) and march to Atlanta
drop zone (Normandy-day), missed
faith of
family of
freedom, lives in
Mama Pig game
Normandy (D-day)

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