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Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends

Page 29

by William Guarnere

Holocaust Memorial Dinner

  kids today, spoiled rotten

  Liberty Bell visit

  pact with friends

  pills, refusing to take

  Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation (Bastogne)

  Publickers Industries work

  Purple Hearts

  reunions, 101st Airborne

  sacrifices

  Trisha (Babe’s daughter)

  war, not talking about

  wars, fighting differently today

  waterfront, cargo checker

  Heffron, Edward “Babe” (training)

  Camp Mackall, NC

  Camp Shanks, NY

  card playing

  Catholic faith of

  combat training

  drinking

  E (Easy) Company, reputation of

  506th Parachute Infantry Regiment

  Fort Benning, GA

  Fort Eustis, VA

  friendships and bonding

  jitterbugging

  jump training

  night jumping

  101st Airborne Division “Screaming Eagles,”

  pact with friends

  physical conditioning

  radio, listening to

  training officers-to-be for officer candidate school

  weekend passes

  Western Union and KIA

  wings, earning

  Heffron, Edward “Babe” (visiting places we fought)

  Aldbourne, England

  Band of Brothers (Ambrose) and

  Bastogne, Belgium

  bucket for urinal

  Dutch and GIs

  Eindhoven, Holland

  France, unfriendliness of

  graves of buddies

  head of blessed mother, returned to church

  “piss is on me” at museum in Bastogne

  Private Lucky

  talking to Joe Toye, Chuck Grant

  Hell’s Highway

  Henderson, J. D.

  heroes

  Hester, Clarence (Captain)

  Heyliger, Fred “Moose” (Lieutenant)

  Hiroshima bombing

  Hitler, Adolf

  Holland. See also Guarnere, Bill “Wild Bill” (Holland); Heffron, Edward “Babe” (Holland)

  Holocaust, reality of

  Hoobler, Don

  Hughes, Frank John (Bill Guarnere)

  idea of war

  “I’ll Be Seeing You,”

  Jackson, Eugene

  Japanese army’s marching record

  Japanese surrender

  Jew Pinochle

  “Jigger,”. See also Heffron, Edward “Babe”

  Joigny, France

  Joint, Eddie

  Jones, Hank

  Julian, John

  Kaprun, Austria

  Katz, Mr

  Kennedy, Robert

  Kilmer, Joyce

  Kooijk, Eddie van

  Kooijk, John van

  Korean War

  Kramer, Rose

  Laing, Robin (Babe Heffron)

  Lampis, Sergeant

  leadership abilities

  Bill “Wild Bill” Guarnere

  Edward “Babe” Heffron

  Lee, Bill (Major General)

  Lesniewski, Joe

  Liberman, Meg

  Liberty Bell visit

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Lipton, Carwood

  living with war memories

  London and GIs

  Longest Day, The (film)

  Look Out Below! (Sampson)

  Lorraine, Gerald

  Luyt, Mathew van

  Luz, George

  Lynn, Jeffrey

  machine gunners

  mail call

  Malarkey, Don

  Aldbourne, England

  Band of Brothers (HBO miniseries)

  Bastogne, Belgium

  D-Day

  Holland

  Mourmelon-le-Grand

  South Philly, back home in

  training

  Maloney, Father

  Marker, Old Man

  marriage in wartime, roadblocks

  Martin, Johnny “the Scrounger”

  Aldbourne, England

  Bastogne, Belgium

  D-Day

  Holland

  Mourmelon-le-Grand, France

  South Philly, back home in

  training

  Matheson, Salve

  McAuliffe, Anthony (General)

  McClung, Earl “One Lung,”

  McGrath, John

  McMann, Mike

  Meehan, Thomas (Captain)

  Mellet, Frankie

  Membury marshaling area

  men vs. battles

  Mercier, Ken

  Miller, Glenn

  Moder River defensive position

  Montgomery, Sir Bernard Law

  Morganti, Al

  Mourmelon-le-Grand, France

  Mr. Lucky (film)

  Muck, Warren “Skip,”

  Nelson, Skip-a-Beat

  Neunen, Holland

  Nijmegen, Holland

  Niland, Fritz

  Nixon, Lewis “Blue Beard,”

  Nocarato, John

  noncoms (NCOs), importance

  Normandy (ship)

  Noville, Belgium

  “Nuts,” McAuliffe’s reply to Germans

  O’Brien, Pat

  officers vs. enlisted men

  Omaha Beach

  101st Airborne Division “Screaming Eagles,”. See also E (Easy) Company; 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment; Guarnere, Bill “Wild Bill”; Heffron, Edward “Babe”

  millionaires of

  reputation in U.S.

  reunions

  training goal

  Operation Eagle

  Operation Market Garden. See also Holland

  pact with friends

  paratroopers as Army elite. See also 101st Airborne Division “Screaming Eagles”

  Paris liberation

  Patton, George (General)

  Peacock, Lieutenant

  Pearl Harbor bombing

  Penkala, Alex

  Perconte, Frank

  Piccadilly Circus and Lilies

  Posnick, Eddie

  Powers, Shifty

  Presidential Distinguished Unit Citations

  Presque Isle, Maine

  Princeton (ship)

  Purple Hearts

  Queen Elizabeth (ship)

  Randleman, Denver “Bull,”

  Ranney, Mike

  reacting vs. thinking

  Reagan, Ronald

  Ridge, Tom (Governor)

  Roe, Gene

  Rommel’s Asparagus

  rosary beads, Babe’s

  Rose, Tokyo

  Rotella, Gregory

  Ruhr pocket, Germany

  Saafelden, Austria

  Sabo, Ed

  Sally, Axis

  Sampson, Father

  San Jacinto (carrier)

  Saving Private Ryan (film)

  Savit, Jan

  Schwartz, Ivan

  “Screaming Eagles.” See 101st Airborne Division “Screaming Eagles”

  2nd Armored

  2nd Battalion (Companies D, E, F) 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. See also E (Easy) Company

  “Seven-Twenty in the Book,”

  Sheehy, John

  Shoe, Charlie (Babe’s uncle)

  Silver Stars

  Sink, Robert (Colonel) “Bourbon Bob,”

  Sirhan, Sirhan

  Smith, Burr “Smitty,”

  Smith, C. T

  Sobel, Herbert (Captain) “Black Swan,”

  Son, Holland

  South Philly. See also Guarnere, Bill “Wild Bill” (South Philly); Heffron, Edward “Babe” (South Philly)

  South Philly, back home in. See also Guarnere, Bill “Wild Bill” (South Philly, back home in); Heffron, Edward “Babe” (South Philly, back home in)

  Speight, Richard (Skip Muck)

  Speirs, Ronald (Lieutenant)

  Spie
lberg, Steven

  Spina, Ralph

  SS Samaria (ship)

  SS troopers (Nazis)

  Staal, Theo

  Steele, John

  Stein, Eddie

  Stokes, J. B.

  Strayer, Robert (Colonel)

  Suerth, Herb

  Sweeney, Patrick (Lieutenant)

  Taylor, Buck

  Taylor, Maxwell (General)

  10th Armored Division’s Team Cherry and Team Desiree

  3rd Battalion (Companies G, H, I) 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment

  Third Army

  Tiger 88 tanks (German), destruction from

  To, Tony

  Tolsdorf, Theodor (General)

  Toye, Joe

  Aldbourne, England

  Band of Brothers (HBO miniseries)

  Bastogne, Belgium

  D-Day

  Holland

  Mourmelon-le-Grand, France

  South Philly, back home in

  training

  visiting places we fought

  training. See also Guarnere, Bill “Wild Bill” (training); Heffron, Edward “Babe” (training)

  Truman, Harry S. (President)

  Tucker, Sophie

  Uden, Holland

  Upottery Field

  Utah Beach

  Vanderswick, George

  Veghel, Holland

  Vermuelen, Mom and Pop

  Vietnam War

  visiting places we fought. See also Guarnere, Bill “Wild Bill” (visiting places we fought); Heffron, Edward “Babe” (visiting places we fought)

  Vittore, Al

  volunteering (never)

  Wahlberg, Donnie

  Webb, Harold

  Welsh, Harry (Lieutenant)

  “We stand alone together,” motto of 506th

  “White Christmas,”

  Wilhelm, Claire

  Wingett, Bill

  Winters, Dick (Captain)

  Aldbourne, England

  Bastogne, Belgium

  D-Day

  Germany

  Holland

  Mourmelon-le-Grand, France

  South Philly, back home in

  training

  women in service

  Wynn, Popeye

  Zell am See, Austria

  Zuccolotto, Christelle

 

 

 


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