Dog Company: the boys of Pointe Du Hoc - the Rangers who accomplished D-Day's toughest mission and led the way across Europe
An epic World War II story of valor, sacrifice, and the Rangers who led the way to victory in Europe. This is the dramatic story of sixty-eight soldiers of the U.S. Army's 2nd Ranger Battalion, D Company-- Dog Company-- who were in the right place at the right time: from D-Day, when German guns...
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| Zusammenfassung: | An epic World War II story of valor, sacrifice, and the Rangers who led the way to victory in Europe. This is the dramatic story of sixty-eight soldiers of the U.S. Army's 2nd Ranger Battalion, D Company-- Dog Company-- who were in the right place at the right time: from D-Day, when German guns atop Pointe du Hoc threatened the Allied landings and the men of Dog Company scaled the ninety-foot cliffs to destroy them; to the thickly forested slopes of Hill 400, in Germany's Hürtgen Forest, where the Rangers launched a desperate bayonet charge across an open field, captured the crucial hill, and held it against all odds |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-286) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xiv, 305 S., [8] Bl. Ill., Kt. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780306820298 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Prologue
1
Dog
Company
2
Rangers?
Bullshit!
3
Big Jim
4
Fort
Pierce and Overseas
5
Bude
6
The Needles
7
The Mission
8
Final Preparations
9
A Tough Spot for a Landing
10
Into the Valley of Death
11
The Sky Was Burning
12
The Landing
13
The Climb
14
Atop the Fortress
15
Bunkers and Farms
16
The Guns of
Pointe du
Hoc
17
Swimmers
18
The First Counterattack
19
Nighttime Attacks
20
June
7
21
The Relief of
Pointe du
Hoc
22
Survivors
23
The Assault on Brest
24
НШ63
25
The Fabulous Four
xi
1
12
15
21
29
34
37
42
47
51
57
61
70
74
79
86
91
95
102
116
123
126
136
145
151
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vii
-
CONTENTS
26
Interlude
158
27
A Factory of Death
161
28
Moving Out
175
29 Bergstein 180
30
Counterattack
182
31
The Church
186
32
The Charge
192
33
Hill
400 198
34
Their Longest Day
205
35
Nightfall
215
36
December
8 218
37
Final Assault on
Bergstein 222
38
Relief Finally Arrives
225
39
The Bulge
227
40
Back to
Hürtgen 235
41
Crossing the
Roer
237
42
The Last Act
244
Epilogue
249
Notes
253
Acknowledgments 2H7
Index
289
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