Band of brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest / Stephen Ambrose.

• "We wanted those wings"; Camp Toccoa, July-December 1942 -- "Stand up and hook up"; Benning, Mackall, Bragg, Shanks, December 1942-September 1943 -- "Duties of the latrine orderly"; Aldbourne, September 1943-March 1944 -- "Look out, Hitler! Here we come!"; Slapton Sands, Uppottery, April 1-June 5, 1944 -- "Follow me"; Normandy, June 6, 1944 -- "Move out!"; Carentan, June 7-July 12, 1944 -- Healing wounds and scrubbed missions; Aldbourne, July 13-September 16, 1944 -- "Hell's highway"; Holland, September 17-October 1, 1944 -- Island; Holland, October 2-November 25, 1944 -- Resting, recovering, and refitting: Mourmelon-le-Grand, November 26-December 18, 1944 -- "They got us surrounded-the poor bastards"; Bastogne, December 19-31, 1944 -- Breaking point; Bastogne, January 1-13, 1945 -- Attack; Noville, January 14-17, 1945 -- Patrol: Haguenau, January 18-February 23, 1945 -- "Best feeling in the world": Mourmelon, February 25-April 2, 1945 -- Getting to know the enemy: Germany, April 2-30, 1945 -- Drinking Hitler's champagne; Berchtesgaden, May 1-8, 1945 -- Soldier's dream life; Austria, May 8-July 31, 1945 -- Postwar careers; 1945-1991.

• A look at the exploits of the men of E Company during World War II describes how they parachuted into France early D-Day morning, parachuted into Holland during the Arnhem campaign, and captured Hitler's Bavarian outpost. 

Ämnesord

Förbandshistoria  (sao)

Andra världskriget 1939-1945  (sao)

D-dagen 1944  (sao)

Slaget vid Arnhem 1944  (sao)

Ardenneroffensiven 1944-1945  (sao)

World War, 1939-1945  -- Regimental histories -- United States. (LCSH)

World War, 1939-1945  -- Campaigns -- Western Front. (LCSH)

Arnhem, Battle of, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944  (LCSH)

Regimental histories  (LCSH)

Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945  (LCSH)

World War, 1939-1945  (LCSH)

Västfronten (Andra världskriget 1939-1945)  (sao)

Institutionsnamn

United States. Army. Parachute Infantry Regiment, 506th. Company E. -- History.

United States. Army

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

K.54b Historia: andra världskriget: militär historia

Klassifikation

D769.348 506th (LCC)

940.54/21 (DDC)

15.70 (bcl)

K.54b (kssb/8)