The World War II Memoirs of Jack Womer-Ranger and Paratrooper
Hardback
Publication Date: 18/05/2012
The inside account of one of the members of The Filthy Thirteen, fighting as a spearhead of the Screaming Eagles in Normandy, Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge In 2004 the world was first introduced to The Filthy Thirteen, a book describing the most notorious squad of fighting men in the 101st Airborne Division who were the inspiration for the movie The Dirty Dozen. This is the long awaited work of Jack Womer, one of the squad's integral members, and probably its best soldier. Womer was originally a member of the 29th Infantry Division and selected to be part of its elite Ranger battalion until, after a year of gruelling training under the eyes of British Commando instructors, they were suddenly dissolved. Bitterly disappointed, Womer asked for transfer to another elite unit, the Screaming Eagles, where room was found for him among the division's most miscreant squad of brawlers, drunkards and goof-offs. Beginning on June 6, 1944, however, the Filthy Thirteen began proving themselves more a menace to the German Army than they had been to their own officers and the good people of England, embarking on a year of ferocious combat at the very tip of the Allied advance in Europe. In this work, with the help of Steven DeVito, Womer provides an amazingly frank look at close-quarters combat in Europe, as well as the almost surreal experience of dust-bowl-era GI's entering country after country in their grapple with the Wehrmacht, finally ending up in Hitler's mountaintop lair in Germany itself. Throughout his fights, Jack Womer credited his Ranger/Commando training for helping him to survive, even though most of the rest of the Filthy Thirteen did not. And in the end he found the reward he had most coveted all along; being able to return to his fiancee Theresa back in the States. ILLUSTRATIONS: Photo section
- ISBN:
- 9781612001005
- 9781612001005
- Category:
- Second World War
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 18-05-2012
- Publisher:
- Casemate Publishers
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 304
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x27mm
- Weight:
- 0.62kg
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