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Army coming to the rescue of the encircled 101st, like the cavalry come to save the settlers in their wagon circle. No member of the 101st has ever agreed that the division needed to be rescued!

With the encirclement broken, the men of the 101st expected to return to Mourmelon to bask in the Allied world's adulation and perhaps to celebrate the New Year in Paris. But the heroic stand at Bastogne had been a defensive action; to win the war the Allies were going to have to resume their offensive; the Germans had come out of their fixed positions in the West Wall and made themselves vulnerable; Eisenhower wanted to seize the opportunity. But his problem at the end of December was the same as it had been in the middle of the month, a manpower shortage. The stark truth was that the Germans outnumbered the Allies on the Western Front. The United States had not raised enough infantry divisions to fight a two-front war. This was a consequence of the prewar decision by the Government to be lavish with deferments for industrial and

Table of Contents

#BOOKZ (UNDERNET) PRESENTS :

1 - 'WE WANTED THOSE WINGS' 2

2 'STAND UP AND HOOK UP' 8

3 "DUTIES OF THE LATRINE ORDERLY" _ 13

4 "LOOK OUT HITLER! HERE WE COME!" _ 19

5 "FOLLOW ME" _ 25

6 "MOVE OUT!" * _ 34

7 HEALING WOUNDS AND SCRUBBED MISSIONS _ 42

8 "HELL'S HIGHWAY" * _ 48

9 THE ISLAND * _ 56

1O RESTING, RECOVERING, AND REFITTING _ 66

11 'THEY GOT US SURROUNDED-THE POOR BASTARDS" _ 72

12 THE BREAKING POINT * _ 79

13 ATTACK _ 86

14 THE PATROL * _ 91

15 "THE BEST FEELING IN THE WORLD" _ 97

16 GETTING TO KNOW THE ENEMY _ 101

17 DRINKING HITLER'S CHAMPAGNE _ 108

18 THE SOLDIER'S DREAM LIFE _ 112

19 POSTWAR CAREERS _ 119

PHOTOGRAPHS _ 126

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND SOURCES _ 133