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Author : Raymond Sidney Tompkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Story of the Rainbow Division written by Raymond Sidney Tompkins and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter B. Wolf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book A Brief Story of the Rainbow Division written by Walter B. Wolf and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter B. Wolf
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781497938953
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (389 download)
Download or read book A Brief Story of the Rainbow Division written by Walter B. Wolf and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1919 Edition.
Author : Hugh S. Thompson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585442904
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Trench Knives and Mustard Gas written by Hugh S. Thompson and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trench Knives and Mustard Gas: With the 42nd Rainbow Division in France is the memoir of a soldier on the front lines of World War I. Hugh Thompson’s memoirs of his time in France demonstrate a keen eye for detail and a penchant for philosophy. Thompson combines the fast-paced prose of the jazz age and the passionate observations of an engaged intellectual. Originally serialized in the Chattanooga Times in 1934, this newly edited version allows the author to tell his story to a whole new generation. Thomspon takes the reader on an intense journey with the 168th regiment of the 42nd Rainbow Division through the villages, towns, battlefields, and hospitals of France. He points out the sights along the way and has a knack for compressing a complex reflection on life into a single sentence. Severely wounded in his arm and back, Thompson reassesses his situation after visiting comrades who lost arms or legs. “I went back to my tent,” he recalls, “almost ashamed of my own lucky wounds.” Homesick for the States during his first months overseas, Thompson discovers that his platoon has become his second family. He becomes increasingly estranged from his old one and accustomed to the war’s distortion of time and values. Friendships form and disappear in the hour it takes a stranger to die. When he is wounded, Germans serve as his stretcher bearers. And things never happen when they take place, but later when one learns of them from a letter or from a soldier passing through. War does not destroy the physical man. It leads to strange experiences. Trench Knives and Mustard Gas brings the front lines of World War I, the Great War, to the hearts and minds of its readers. The book is an indispensable guide into the past, told by a man who was there.
Author : Raymond Minshall Cheseldine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ohio in the Rainbow written by Raymond Minshall Cheseldine and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : RAYMOND S. TOMPKINS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033649169
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (491 download)
Download or read book STORY OF THE RAINBOW DIVISION written by RAYMOND S. TOMPKINS and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nimrod Thompson Frazer
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817359799
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Send the Alabamians written by Nimrod Thompson Frazer and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Send the Alabamians recounts the story of the 167th Infantry Regiment of the WWI Rainbow Division from their recruitment to their valiant service on the bloody fields of eastern France in the climactic final months of World War I. To mark the centenary of World War I, Send the Alabamians tells the remarkable story of a division of Alabama recruits whose service Douglas MacArthur observed had not “been surpassed in military history.” The book borrows its title from a quip by American General Edward H. Plummer who commanded the young men during the inauspicious early days of their service. Impressed with their ferocity and esprit de corps but exasperated by their rambunctiousness, Plummer reportedly exclaimed: In time of war, send me all the Alabamians you can get, but in time of peace, for Lord’s sake, send them to somebody else! The ferocity of the Alabamians, so apt to get them in trouble at home, proved invaluable in the field. At the climactic Battle of Croix Rouge, the hot-blooded 167th exhibited unflinching valor and, in the face of machine guns, artillery shells, and poison gas, sustained casualty rates over 50 percent to dislodge and repel the deeply entrenched and heavily armed enemy. Relying on extensive primary sources such as journals, letters, and military reports, Frazer draws a vivid picture of the individual soldiers who served in this division, so often overlooked but critical to the war’s success. After Gettysburg, the Battle of Croix Rouge is the most significant military engagement to involve Alabama soldiers in the state’s history. Families and genealogists will value the full roster of the 167th that accompanies the text. Richly researched yet grippingly readable, Nimrod T. Frazer’s Send the Alabamians will delight those interested in WWI, the World Wars, Alabama history, or southern military history in general. Historians of the war, regimental historians, military history aficionados, and those interested in previously unexplored facets of Alabama history will prize this unique volume as well.
Author : Sam Dann
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896723917
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Dachau 29 April 1945 written by Sam Dann and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Members of the Rainbow Division, 42nd Infantry discuss what it was like to participate in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in April of 1945.
Author : Hugh C. Daly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (267 download)
Download or read book 42nd "Rainbow" Infantry Division written by Hugh C. Daly and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Hold at All Cost written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These accounts by 42nd Rainbow Division P.O.W.'s from both World Wars provide stark descriptions of battles preceding capture as well as experiences in the Lagers in which they were imprisoned.
Author : Harold Stanley Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Roster of the Rainbow Division (forty-second) Major General Wm. A. Mann Commanding written by Harold Stanley Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rainbow Division Veterans Memorial Foundation Inc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (813 download)
Download or read book 42nd "Rainbow" Infantry Division written by Rainbow Division Veterans Memorial Foundation Inc and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Mahon
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786461047
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book New York's Fighting Sixty-Ninth written by John Mahon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formed in 1851 by Irish immigrants, the Fighting Sixty-Ninth has served with distinction since the Civil War. This is a complete, illustrated history of the regiment's service in the Irish Brigade and the Rainbow Division. Functioning as the 1st Regiment, Irish Brigade, 2nd Corps, Army of the Potomac throughout the Civil War, the regiment made history at Malvern Hill, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg and Appomatox. According to legend, an exasperated General Jackson cursed them as part of "that damn brigade." Functioning as the 165th Infantry, 42nd Division (Rainbow Division) throughout World War I, the regiment helped turn back the last German offensive, counterattacked at the Ourq river, spearheaded one of Pershing's pincers at St. Mihiel, and helped break the Hindenburg Line in the Argonne Forest. Today, the regiment is known as 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry (Mechanized), New York Army National Guard.
Author : William George Hansult (Jr.)
Publisher : Mill City Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781545634424
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (344 download)
Download or read book The Final Battle written by William George Hansult (Jr.) and published by Mill City Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All men keep secrets from their children. Some men even keep secrets from their wives. My father did both. By the dawn of 1945, the War was at its zenith. Nazi Germany was like a dying star burning its brightest just before going extinct. Germans were on their own soil and those protecting "the Fatherland" were the true believers - the fanatics - who would, and did, fight to the last man standing. The battles fought were mostly in cities, house to house and sometimes hand to hand. Many of these battles were fought by untested teenage American boys. All the time, Hitler was using his futuristic "wonder weapons" on this European front, while committing mass murder in concentration camps. My father was one of these American boys. At eighteen years old, he joined the Army in 1944, and fresh out of boot camp, he became one of those "replacements." Those men who replaced fallen comrades; and the ones battle hardened veterans didn't want to get to know. But my father's experience was a little different than most, because he learned that he was fighting some of his own blood relatives who were either in the Nazi party, the army, or Hitler Youth. Although untested, he and his comrades were thrown into one of the longest battles an American Army Division fought during the war. For thirty days they fought and marched. Those they fought were hardened SS and Hitler Youth. It was the formula for vicious, personal fighting and for unthinkable atrocities committed by both sides. My father fought with distinction, all the while earning the respect of the veterans he served with. Then, when he thought the fighting was over, his unit was the first in for the liberation of one of Hitler's most famous concentration camps, Dachau.
Author : John B. Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Maneuver and Firepower written by John B. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781594163500
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (635 download)
Download or read book Suddenly Soldiers written by Robert Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans Face the Horror of a Modern European War for the First Time Made up of companies from ten Ohio towns, the 166th Infantry Regiment became part of the famous 42nd Division, known as the "Rainbow Division." They were the third American division to arrive in France, where they fought courageously in the trenches at Lunéville and Baccarat before being a key part of the American effort in the Second Battle of the Marne and the Saint Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. Despite their initial lack of training in modern warfare and weapons, the 166th Infantry compiled an impressive combat record. However, that record came at a terrible cost, with the regiment suffering over two thousand casualties in just nine months of fighting. Using regimental histories and the letters and diaries of the soldiers who fought in France, Suddenly Soldiers: The 166th Infantry Regiment in World War I by author and historian Robert Thompson tells the compelling story of the young men--"citizen soldiers"--who have always borne the cost of America's freedom with quiet courage.
Author : Henry Joseph Reilly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Americans All written by Henry Joseph Reilly and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
