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Bulge and
commanders relieved
created
final days of war and
January 1945 positions
Luxembourg HQ and
QUEEN and
Rhine crossing and
Ruhr and
victory position of
U.S. XII Corps
U.S. 12th Infantry Regiment
U.S. XIII Corps
U.S. 14th Armored Division
U.S. 14th Cavalry Group
U.S. 14th Engineers
U.S. Fifteenth Air Force
U.S. Fifteenth Army
U.S. XV Corps
U.S. 15th Infantry Regiment
U.S. XVI Corps
U.S. 16th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 17th Airborne Division
U.S. XVIII Airborne Corps
U.S. 18th Infantry Regiment
U.S. XIX Corps
U.S. XX Corps
U.S. XXI Corps
U.S. 23rd Infantry Division
U.S. 26th Infantry Division
U.S. 27th Armored Infantry Battalion
U.S. 28th Infantry Division (Pennsylvania National Guard, Bloody Bucket)
Bastogne and
Bulge and
Colmar Pocket and
Hürtgen and
Slovik execution and
U.S. 29th Infantry Division
U.S. 30th Infantry Division (Old Hickory)
Aachen and
Mortain and
U.S. 32nd Field Artillery Battalion
U.S. 35th Infantry Division
U.S. 36th Infantry Division (Texas National Guard)
U.S. 37th Tank Battalion
U.S. 42nd Infantry Division
U.S. 44th Infantry Division
U.S. 45th Infantry Division
U.S. 47th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 52nd Troop Carrier Wing
U.S. 60th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 65th Infantry Division
U.S. 69th Infantry Division
U.S. 70th Infantry Division
U.S. 75th Infantry Division
U.S. 78th Infantry Division
U.S. 79th Infantry Division
U.S. 80th Infantry Division
U.S. 82nd Airborne Division
Bulge and
BOSTON and
GRENADE and
MARKET GARDEN and
U.S. 83rd Infantry Division
U.S. 84th Infantry Division
U.S. 85th Reconnaissance Squadron
U.S. 86th Infantry Division
U.S. 90th Infantry Division
U.S. 95th Infantry Division
U.S. 99th Infantry Division
U.S. 100th Infantry Division
U.S. 101st Airborne Division
ALBANY and
Bulge and
MARKET GARDEN and
U.S. 102nd Infantry Division
U.S. 103rd Infantry Division
U.S. 104th Infantry Division
U.S. 106th Infantry Division
Bulge and
Schnee Eifel surrender of
U.S. 109th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 110th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 111th Field Artillery Battalion
U.S. 112th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 115th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 116th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 117th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 119th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 120th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 132nd Field Artillery Battalion
U.S. 141st Infantry Regiment
U.S. 143rd Infantry Regiment
U.S. 157th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 275th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion
U.S. 309th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 313th Troop Carrier Group
U.S. 319th Bombardment Group
U.S. 358th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 359th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 394th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 411th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 422nd Infantry Regiment
U.S. 423rd Infantry Regiment
U.S. 424th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment
U.S. 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment
U.S. 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
U.S. 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
U.S. 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment
U.S. 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment
U.S. 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment
U.S. 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment
U.S. 705th Bombardment Squadron
U.S. Army
demographics of
discipline and desertions in
GI clubs
hardening of
looting by
manpower needs of
matérial and
Paris life and
postwar search for missing
strengths of, after Normandy
tactical doctrine
U.S. Army Air Forces (AAF)
COBRA and
DRAGOON and
manpower needs of
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. Army Effects Bureau
U.S. Congress
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
U.S. Marine Corps
U.S. military cemeteries
U.S. military tribunals
U.S. Navy
U.S. Selective Service
U.S. Signal Corps
U.S. Strategic Air Forces
U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey
Urft
Urquhart, Maj. Gen. Roy
USFET (U.S. Forces in the European Theater)
USO performances
Utah Beach
V-1 rocket
V-2 rocket
U.S. finds components in Germany
Valenciennes coal fields
Valkhof
Van Dyck, Anthony
Van Fleet, Col. James A.
Van Gogh, Vincent
VARSITY PLUNDER, Operation
Vauban
Verdun
December 19 meeting at
VERITABLE
Vermeer, Johannes
Versailles
Treaty of (1919)
Vichy France
Victoria, Queen of England
Victory in Europe Day (May 8, 1945)
Vielsalm
Vienna
Vierville
Villers-Bocage
Vire
Vire River
Vittel
Eisenhower, Devers, and Bradley meet at
Vlaminck, Maurice de
Voice of SHAEF, The (radio program)
Voltaire
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
Vosges Mountains
Vossenack
Vouilly
Waal River
Walcheren Island
Waller, Fats
Walters, Bucky
Wandry, Lt. June
war crimes
War Department
brochures
manpower shortages and
Warsaw
uprising
Waterloo, Battle of
Waters, Lt. Col. John Knight (POW no. 4161)
Waugh, Evelyn
Weigley, Russell F.
Weinberg, Gerhard L.
Weiss, Lt. Robert L.
Weizäcker, Carl Friedrich von
Wellard, James
Werbomont
Werewolf movement
Wesel
Westerbouwing Heights
Westphal, Gen. Siegfried
Westphalian Plain
West Wall. See Siegfried Line
White, Austin
White, Osmar
Whitehead, Don
Whiteley, Maj. Gen. J. F. M.
“Why Americans Seem Childish” (Mead)
Wierzbowski, Lt. Edward L.
Wiesbaden
Wiese, Gen. Friedrich
Wilck
, Col. Gerhard
Wilder, Billy
Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany
Williams, Brig. Edgar T.
Williamson’s probability
William the Conqueror
Willmott, H. P.
Wiltz
Winant, John G.
Wismar, fall of
Wittmann, SS Capt. Michael
Wöbbelin concentration camp
Wolfe, Charles
Wolfsschlucht II (Hitler HQ)
Wood, Maj. Gen. John S. “P.”
World War I
armistice and
World War II
costs and consequences of
veterans of
Wren, Christopher
Wright, Elton E.
Wright, Sgt. Frank H.
Wright, Harold B.
Wright, Henry A.
Wuppertal
Wurm River
Xanten
Yalta Conference
Yamamoto, Adm. Isoruku
Yank (GI magazine)
Young, Norwood
Ypres
Y program (German atomic bomb)
Yugoslavia
Zangen, Gen. Gustav-Adolf von
Zeiss company
Zuider Zee
Zutphen, Battle of (1586)
Zyklon B
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Atkinson, Rick.
The guns at last light: the war in Western Europe, 1944–1945 / Rick Atkinson. —1st ed.
p. cm. — (The liberation trilogy; v. 3)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8050-6290-8
1. World War, 1939–1945—Campaigns—Western Front. I. Title.
D756.A78 2013
940.54'21—dc23
2012034312
First Edition 2013
Maps by Gene Thorp
eISBN 9781429943673
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
RICK ATKINSON is the bestselling author of An Army at Dawn (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history), The Day of Battle, The Long Gray Line, In the Company of Soldiers, and Crusade. His many other awards include a Pulitzer Prize for journalism, the George Polk award, and the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award. A former staff writer and senior editor at The Washington Post, he lives in Washington, D.C.
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