Table Of ContentTable of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE - A Future That Nobody Could Prepare Us For
CHAPTER TWO - Young Lions, East
CHAPTER THREE - Young Lions, West
CHAPTER FOUR - The Day Everything Changed
CHAPTER FIVE - Cutting Teeth at Toccoa
CHAPTER SIX - How the Rest of Us Trained
CHAPTER SEVEN - Aboard the Samaria, Toccoa Men
CHAPTER EIGHT - Atlantic Crossings, Replacements
CHAPTER NINE - Aldbourne: Calm Before the Storm
CHAPTER TEN - A Bad Day for a Lot of Young Men
CHAPTER ELEVEN - Fighting in Normandy
CHAPTER TWELVE - The Battle of Carentan
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - R&R in England
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - The Fight of Our Lives in Holland
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Defending the Island
CHAPTER SIXTEEN - Respite in Mourmelon
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - Frozen Hell
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Blood
CHAPTER NINETEEN - Enemy Across the River
CHAPTER TWENTY - Meeting a Defeated Aggressor
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - Toasting Victory
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - Last Duties in Austria
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE - Coming Home
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR - Lives in Freedom
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE - Thoughts on Heroism
EPILOGUE
Memories of My Father
APPENDIX I - Easy Company’s Campaigns 1944-1945
APPENDIX III - Understanding Easy Company’s Placement: Easy Company,
506th ...
APPENDIX IV - Known Members of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry
Regiment, ...
APPENDIX V - Killed in Action, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry
Regiment, ...
INDEX
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Brotherton, Marcus.
We who are alive and remain : untold stories from the band of brothers / contributors, Rod Bain . . . [et al.].
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN : 978-1-10105056-9
1. United States. Army. Parachute Infantry Regiment, 506th. Company E. 2. World War,
1939-1945—Personal narratives, American. 3. World War, 1939-1945—Regimental histories—
United States. 4. World War, 1939-1945—Campaigns—Western Front. 5. United States. Army—
Parachute troops. 6. Soldiers—United States—Biography. I. Title.
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CONTRIBUTORS
Rod Bain
Don Bond
Roy Gates
Forrest Guth
Ed Joint
Joe Lesniewski
Dewitt Lowrey
Clancy Lyall
Al Mampre
Earl “One Lung” McClung
Norman Neitzke
Ed Pepping
Frank Perconte
Darrell “Shifty” Powers
Frank Soboleski
Herb Suerth Jr.
Amos “Buck” Taylor
Ed Tipper
Bill Wingett
Henry Zimmerman
With the families of:
George Luz Sr.
Robert Burr Smith
Herbert Sobel
