Every Man a Hero
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Sinatra, Frank, 34
16th Infantry Regiment
casualties, 60, 68, 78–79
history of, 23–24
information on, 256
postwar reunions, 233–34
See also D-Day; 1st Division; Operation Husky; Operation Torch; Tunisian Campaign
Slapton Sands (England), 145–46, 267
Smith, Albert F., 60
Spain, 53–54
Spalding, John, 175–76, 192
Spanish–American War, 24
Stalingrad, Battle of, 150
Streczyk, Philip, 176
stretcher bearers, 25, 26, 66–67, 113–14
Summerall, Charles P., 22
surgery, 29
Sword Beach, 167, 194
Taylbont, 166
Taylor, George, 112–13
Tegtmeyer, Charles, 152, 182–83, 219, 220
tourniquets, 26
traumatic brain injuries, 252–53
trench foot, 130–31, 249
Troina, Battle of, 117–20, 267
tuberculosis (TB), 29
Tunisian Campaign, 68–81, 83–99
Battle of El Guettar, 74, 80
Bill’s capture, 92–93
casualties, 68, 78–79
command, 69, 70, 71–72, 86, 265
flea bites during, 91
German air reconnaissance, 75–77
Hill 609, 92, 266
Lambert’s bayonet fight, 81, 83–85
Lambert’s Jeep injury, 73–74
Lambert’s promotion, 65–68
Lambert’s shrapnel injury, 79–80
Lambert’s Silver Star action, 87–88, 133
land mines, 73–74, 89–90
map, x
McNair first aid treatment, 90–91, 266
progress of, 69–71, 74–75, 80, 86–87
return to Algeria, 93–97
strategy, 63–65
terrain, 65, 69
victory, 93, 99
29th Infantry, 162–63, 166–67, 256
II Corps, 69, 86, 111, 117
See also Operation Husky
typhus, 249
U.S. Army
buildup of, 17–18, 50–52
mail policies, 98–99
resource depletion, 30
segregation of, 149
structure of, 22–23
U.S. Coast Guard, 266
U.S. culture
and Great Depression, 10–12, 14–15
home front experience, 140–42, 204–5
Roaring Twenties, 6
Southern manners, 9–10, 48
USN Satterlee, 166
USO shows, 33–34
USS Boise, 105, 108
USS Henrico, 152
USS Thurston, 101–2
Utah Beach, 167, 185, 193–94, 209
See also D-Day
venereal disease, 62–63, 249
Vichy France, 54, 57, 59
WAACs (Women Auxiliary Army Corps), 95–96
war experience
and ability to kill, 70–71, 84, 86, 103, 163
attitudes toward death, 88–89
guilt, 79
human connections with enemy, 77, 84–85, 123–24, 218
legacy of, 235–36
resilience, 181–82
survival, 189–90
See also post-traumatic stress disorder
Warwick Castle, 58
Williamson, Durwood, 9
Wills, Larry, 93, 123–24
World War I
1st Division role in, 20–22
and Roaring Twenties, 6
shell shock, 128, 251, 252
16th Infantry Regiment role in, 24
trench foot, 131
tuberculosis during, 29
World War II
blackout conditions, 53–54
Eastern Front, 41
European front decision, 42
French civilian experience, 214–15
home front, 140–42, 204–5
information on, 255–57
Italian campaign, 149, 213
major operations map, viii–ix
Operation Overlord, 159–60, 208–13, 220, 269
Operation Torch, 57–63, 264–65
Pacific campaign, 40–41, 149–50, 213–14
Pearl Harbor bombing, 37, 39–40
progress of (1944), 149–50
strikes during, 204–5
U.S. attitudes toward, 32–33
U.S. casualties, 269
U.S. military buildup, 17–18, 50–52
VE Day, 228
vengeance attacks, 215–16
See also D-Day; Operation Husky; Tunisian Campaign
Wyler, William, 253
X-ray machines, 249
About the Authors
ARNOLD “RAY” LAMBERT was born in Alabama in 1920. Joining the U.S. Army in 1940, he served as a medic in the invasions of North Africa, Sicily, and Normandy. For much of the war, he was staff sargeant in charge of a thirty-man detail in the First Division’s famed 16th Regiment. Lambert earned the Silver Star and multiple Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts. He saved many lives. After the war, he started two successful businesses in the Boston area. He lives with his wife in North Carolina.
JIM DeFELICE is the coauthor, with former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, of the multi-million-copy bestseller American Sniper, the sourse for Clint Eastwood’s film starring Bradley Cooper. His other books include Omar Bradley: General at War; Rangers at Dieppe; and West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express. He lives in upstate New York.
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Maps courtesy of the Department of History, U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Cover design by Richard L. Aquan
Cover photographs: D-Day Landing © Robert Capa © International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos; Ray Lambert's photo courtesy of the author
Digital Edition MAY 2019 ISBN: 978-0-06-294759-8
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-293748-3
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