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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778833503321

Autore

Egger Bruce E. <1923->

Titolo

G Company's war [[electronic resource] ] : two personal accounts of the campaigns in Europe, 1944-1945 / / Bruce E. Egger & Lee MacMillan Otts; edited and with commentary by Paul Roley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1992

ISBN

0-8173-8089-2

0-585-27320-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

OttsLee MacMillan <1922->

RoleyPaul <1927->

Disciplina

940.54/21

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Western Front

World War, 1939-1945

Soldiers - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-286) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue; 1. First Blood; 2. The Mud of Lorraine; 3. Transition: From Lorraine to Metz; 4. Into the Bulge; 5. Victory in the Ardennes; 6. The Saarlautern Interlude; 7. The Drive to the Rhine; 8. The Race across Germany; Epilogue; Appendix I: The Reckoning; Appendix II: Roll Call; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This unique account of combat in World War II provides parallel day-to-day records of the same events as seen by two men in the same company, one an enlisted man, one an officer.    G Company's War is the story of a World War II rifle company in Patton's Third Army as detailed in the journals of S/Sgt. Bruce Egger and Lt. Lee M. Otts, both of G Company, 328th Regiment, 26th infantry Division.   Bruce Egger arrived in France in October 1944, and Lee Otts arrived in November. Both fought for G Company through the remainder of the war. Otts was wounded seriously