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Table 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 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Most Berkley Caliber Books are available at special quantity discounts for bulk purchases for sales promotions, premiums, fund-raising, or educational use. Special books, or book excerpts, can also be created to fit specific needs. For details, write: Special Markets, The Berkley Publishing Group, 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014. THE BERKLEY PUBLISHING GROUP Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd., 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Group Ireland, 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd.) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty. Ltd.) Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd., 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi—110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd.) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty.) Ltd., 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd., Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England This book is an original publication of the Berkley Publishing Group. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third- party websites or their content. Copyright © 2009 by Marcus Brotherton All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights. Purchase only authorized editions. BERKLEY CALIBER and its logo are trademarks of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 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. D769.348506th .B76 2009 940.54’12730922—dc22 2008047668 http://us.penguingroup.com 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
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