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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments by Fawn Zwickel -- Preface by Fawn Zwickel -- 1-Hell -- 2-Lucky Foot -- 3-Starving and Battered -- 4-Surviving Normandy -- 5-Face to Face with the Siegfried Line -- 6-Woodland Splinters -- 7-Snow, Blood, Bodies and Shit -- 8-My Private Battle of the Bulge -- 9-War's-Over Off to the Next Assignment -- 10-Camp Ashcan -- 11-Transporting Guilty Cargo -- 12-Haunted Forever -- 13-Camp #219, Dachau -- 14-Buchenwald -- 15-Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz -- 16-Standing Guard at Nuremberg -- 17-Homesick -- 18-The Final Ride Home |
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19-Trouble Over the Atlantic Basin -- 20-Killing Time to Stay Alive -- 21-Fixing the Propeller -- 22-An Empty Welcome Home -- 23-A Changed Man at the VA -- 24-Compartmentalizing -- A Last Word -- Author's Military Service -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
"A tough Jewish kid from the Bronx, Dan Altman enlisted in the Army when the U.S. entered World War II. Adapting street smarts to soldiering, he became a skilled sharpshooter and attained the rank of sergeant in the 1st Infantry Division. On D-Day, Altman's unit was among the second wave to the assault the German defenses at Normandy. Surviving the invasion, the fighting in the lethal hedgerow country and the Hurtgen Forest, and the Battle of the Bulge, he was later assigned to gather information on Nazi atrocities for the trials at Nuremburg. Beginning with his plunge into the blood-tinged surf at Omaha Beach, his candid, often graphic memoir is presented here as told to his granddaughter." Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Altman, Daniel, 1921-
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United States. Army. Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, 391st -- Biography
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United States. Army -- Military life -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
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International Military Tribunal.
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International Military Tribunal fast |
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United States. Army fast |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
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Armed Forces -- Military life
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Military campaigns
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Regimental histories
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New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
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New York (State) -- New York
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United States
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Western Front (World War (1939-1945))
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Personal narratives
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781476637679 |
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1476637679 |
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