Within twenty-four hours, the war ripped us apart again. Dick waved forlornly, shin-deep in mud, as Ethel, Jean, and I climbed into Gen Eisenhower’s 6-17 dispatched to make certain that we proceed to Allied Force Headquarters without further delay. When the plane pulled itself from Oran’s swampy airfield I could scarcely keep from bawling as Dick gradually diminished to a mere pinpoint near the airstrip far below. His last words still rang in my ears : Im trying to get up to the front, darling.
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Oct
20
2009
Posted by Vicky | Comments : (0)
Category : Archive Stories, Kay Summersby
Tags: 9th Infantry Division, Admiral Cunningham, Admiral Darlan, Afrika Korps Prisoners, Allied Commander, Allied Force Headquarters, Arab, Arabian Nights, Archbishop Spellman, Archive Stories, Barney Fawkes, Beetle Smith, Bizerte, Casablanca, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Churchill, Civilian First Class Summersby, Clinique Glydne, Constantine, De Gaulle, Downing Street, Eisenhower, Elspeth Duncan, First Sea Lord, Foreign Office, Free French, French, Gen Arthur Wilson, General Anderson, General Giraud, General Sir Alan Brooke, General Truscott, George C. Marshall, Giraud, Hill 609, Hopkins, Kasserine Pass, London, Lt Dampier, Mac-Millan, Maison Blanche, Mateur, Mountbatten, Murphy, New York, Nogues, One Dozen Roses, Oran, Peg Chase, Peyrouton, Pound, President of Turkey, Red Ball Express, Rita Hayworth, Roll Out the Barrel, Roosevelt, Royal Navy, Sgt Clay Williams, Sidi Athman, Sidi Bou Zid, Sir Alexander Cadogan, Sir Alan Brooke, Sir F. N. Mason-Macfarlane, Spahi, St George Hotel, Supreme Commander, Tebessa, Tedder, Tex Lee, Tommies, Tunis, Vichy, Von Arnim, Yanks
Mar
02
2009
Posted by Snafu | Comments : (1)
Category : 099th-IR(S)(V), Battle of the Bulge
Tags: 1. SS Panzer Division LSSAH, 116. Panzer Division, 12. SS Panzer Div (HJ), 12. Volksgrenadier Division, 18 Volksgrenadier Division, 1F/A, 2/ID, 21/AG, 272. Volksgrenadier division, 277. Volksgrenadier division, 28th Infantry Division, 2nd Inf Div, 3 Fallschirmjäger Division, 3. Panzergrenadier Division, 3/A, 30th Photo Recon Squadron, 326. Infanterie Division, 326. Volksgrenadier division, 4th Infantry Division, 560 Volksgrenadier Division, 6/AG, 62 Volksgrenadier Division, 67th Tact Recon Grp, 7/A, 78th Inf Div, 8/C, 83rd Infantry Division (US), 8th Infantry Division US, 9/A, 9/ID, 99/ID, 99th Inf Div, 9th Armd Div, Aachen, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur W. Tedder, Auw, Battle of the Bulge, Belfort, Bielefeld, Bollendorf, Bonn, Bulge, Camp Elsenborn, Colmar, Cologne, Düren, Düsseldorf, Euskirchen, Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, Field Marshal von Rundstedt, Frankfurt Gate, French Border, Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gen Georges S. Patton's, George C. Marshall, Heinsberg, Hürtgen Forest, Jülich, Kaiserslautern, Kesternich, Koln, Krefeld, Krinkelt, Kuchelscheid, Kyll River, Lammersdorf, Lanzerath, Losheim, Lt Gen Alexander M. Patch, Lt Gen Courtney H. Hodges, Lt Gen Jacob L. Devers, Lt Gen Omar N. Bradley, Lt Gen William H. Simpson, Luxeùbourg Border, Maastricht, Maj Gen Leonard T. Gerow, Maj Gen Norman D. Cota, Maj Gen Raymond O. Barton, Maj Gen Troy H. Middleton, Manderfeld, Monschau, Monschau Forest, Moselle River, Mutzenich, Our River, Ouren, Rhine River, Roer Dam, Roer River, Rollesbroich, Ruhr River, Saar River, Sauer River, Saverne Gap, Schnee Eifel, Schwammenauel See, St Vith, Strasbourg, Urft Dam, Urftalsperre See, Waal River, Wallerscheid, West Wall
If the Krauts crack the defenses in the North Shoulder, they won’t surround the 101/AB Division in Bastogne, but the entire 1st Army in Belgium.
