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Omaha Beach and Beyond: The Long March of Sergeant Bob Slaughter

By John Slaughter

Book information

Publisher
Zenith Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9781616737634, 9780760337349, 9780760331415, 2007009185
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (6932178 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-11-05 08:35:19
Biography & Autobiography; History; Military; Nonf

Description

"Slaughter vividly conveys the reality of combat during World War II in his book with sweeping passages that literally place his reader on the battlefield beside him." Belvoir Eagle Before D-Day, regular army soldiers called the National Guardsmen of Virginia's 116th Infantry Regiment "Home Nannies" and "Weekend Warriors" and worse. On June 6, 1944, on Omaha Beach, however, these proud Virginians who carried the legacy of the famed Stonewall Brigade showed the regular army and the world what true valor really was. In this moving World War II memoir, the author captures the life of GI Joe from pre-Pearl Harbor days through training, deployment overseas, and more training. All leads up to D-Day and Normandy on June 6, 1944, when Sergeant Bob Slaughter came across Omaha Beach with Company D of the 116th Infantry and the Bedford Boys.

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