The Battalion: The Dramatic Story of the 2nd Ranger Battalion in World War IIStackpole Books, 2006 - 354 pages
With a centuries' old warrior heritage, American Rangers endured the most difficult training that man could devise to overcome the most difficult challenges of the enemy and nature. For more than fourteen months, the volunteers that made up the 2nd Ranger Battalion had been finely honed for combat. Now, on June 6, 1944--D-Day--their battle would begin. The payoff was at hand. As the ramps of the landing craft went down, rockets on the sides of the ship fired ropes and grapnels skyward toward the cliff top. Some ropes fell short, men stepped into water that was over their heads and, loaded with equipment weighing over a hundred pounds, sank like stones. Sound and fury combined with fear and determination. Some men thought of the words they had heard each time they were tempted to complain: "You volunteered." |
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... France taking ashore the American 2nd Ranger Battalion . This elite , all - volunteer infantry unit led by the legendary Lt. Col. James Rudder had been assigned one of the most important and difficult missions of D - Day : scaling the ...
... , Preparations for Invasion , December 1 , 1943 - June 5 , 1944 47 CHAPTER SIX : Normandy , D - Day , June 6 , 1944 83 CHAPTER SEVEN : Invasion Aftermath , June 7 - August 16 , 1944 . 153 CHAPTER EIGHT : Brest , France , August 17 - vii.
... France , August 17 - September 18 , 1944 CHAPTER NINE : 165 To the Hürtgen Forest , September 19 - November 3 , 1944 .. 187 CHAPTER TEN : Castle Hill ( Hill 400 ) , December 1-10 , 1944 205 CHAPTER ELEVEN : Winter War , December 11 ...
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