To D-Day and Back: Adventures with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment and Life as a World War II POW Book

Table of Contents

PART I

Doing my bit

One Texas National Guard, 144th Infantry

Two Parachute School, Fort Benning, Georgia

Three 507th Cast of Characters

Four Payday Parties

Five Training Jumps in a Peanut Patch

Six Louisiana Maneuvers, 1943

Seven: Rodeo Jump: Alliance, Nebraska, August 1943

Eight The Jumping Mascot Nine Sedalia, Missouri Jump

Ten Taking My Exclusive Furlough to Wyoming

Eleven The 507th PIR in Northern Ireland

Twelve Jolly Olde England: Fish and Chips, 507th Style

PART II

D-DAY AND THE BATTLE FOR NORMANDY

Thirteen D-Day Jump and the Little French Maid

Fourteen Assembly

Fifteen The Battle for Fresville

Sixteen Taylor’s Group: Bundle Duty and Ear Injury

Seventeen Millett’s Group: My Hottest Day of the War

Eighteen Avoid Crossing God in Combat

Nineteen Patrols and Moving Out

Twenty Capture

PART III

TOURING EUROPE 10TH CLASS: MY LIFE AS A POW

Twenty-One From St. Lo to Alencon

Twenty-Two We Lay Tracks, Dig Bombs, and Play Nurse

Twenty-Three Gimme Shelter

Twenty-Four Buttered French Bread

Twenty-Five Alencon-Paris and a Meeting with the Berlin Bitch

Twenty-Six Victory Is Sweet

Twenty-Seven A Boxcar Ride to Stalag XIIA: Horrors by Day or Night

Twenty-Eight Stalag IVB to Stalag IIIC: Learning the Ropes as a POW

Twenty-Nine Stalag IIIC, Kuestrin: Willkommen!

Thirty Daily Life at Stalag IIIC: Pals So Good and True

Thirty-One Red Cross to the Rescue

Thirty-Two Deutsch fur Amerikaner: Swaps and Scams at Stalag IIIC

Thirty-Three Life and Death (MostlyDeath): The French and Russian Compounds