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Dog Company : the boys of Pointe Du Hoc--the Rangers who accomplished D-Day's toughest mission and led the way across Europe / Patrick K. O'Donnell.

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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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0306820293
  • ISBN: 9780306820298
  • Physical Description: xiv, 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Boston : Da Capo Press, [2012]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-286) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1 Dog Company 1 -- 2 "Rangers? Bullshit!" 12 -- 3 Big Jim 15 -- 4 Fort Pierce and Overseas 21 -- 5 Bude 29 -- 6 Needles 34 -- 7 Mission 37 -- 8 Final Preparations 42 -- 9 A Tough Spot for a Landing 47 -- 10 "Into the Valley of Death" 51 -- 11 "The Sky Was Burning" 57 -- 12 Landing 61 -- 13 Climb 70 -- 14 Atop the Fortress 74 -- 15 Bunkers and Farms 79 -- 16 Guns of Pointe du Hoc 86 -- 17 Swimmers 91 -- 18 First Counterattack 95 -- 19 Nighttime Attacks 102 -- 20 June 7 116 -- 21 Relief of Pointe du Hoc 123 -- 22 Survivors 126 -- 23 Assault on Brest 136 -- 24 Hill 63 145 -- 25 Fabulous Four 151 -- 26 Interlude 158 -- 27 A Factory of Death 161 -- 28 Moving Out 175 -- 29 Bergstein 180 -- 30 Counterattack 182 -- 31 Church 186 -- 32 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 Bulge 227 -- 40 Back to Hürtgen 235 -- 41 Crossing the Roer 237 -- 42 Last Act 244.
Subject:
United States. Army. Ranger Battalion, 2nd.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > France > Normandy.
World War, 1939-1945 > Regimental histories > United States.

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