From Anzio to the Alps : an American soldier's story / Lloyd M. Wells.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wells, Lloyd M. (Lloyd Manning), 1919-2000.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.

Soldiers--United States--Biography.

Soldiers.

United States. Army. Armored Infantry Regiment, 6th.

United States.

Wells, Lloyd M. (Lloyd Manning), 1919-2000.

Wells, Lloyd M.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This compelling work is Lloyd M. Wells's firsthand account of World War II based on a journal he kept during the war, letters he sent home, and personal records, as well as recollections of people and events. In June 1941, the twenty-one-year-old Wells was drafted into the army. He was commissioned second lieutenant after he attended O.C.S. and was later promoted to first lieutenant with the First Armored Division. He saw action in North Africa, Italy, and Germany and was awarded the Combat Infantry Badge, the Purple Heart, and the Bronze Star. Wells offers the reader information that has never before been provided. He tells exactly what happened to 2/7 Queens on the night of February 21, 1944, when the troops came up to "the caves" at Anzio. He also depicts what happened during the last offensive in Italy and what armored infantry troops experienced on the perimeter of the attack. This book, however, is not just a story of battle actions. It is a personal story about the "old Army" and how young soldiers were transformed by it during one of the greatest upheavals in world history. Wells's goal in writing this book was to leave behind "an account of a simpler time and of the funny, sad, terrorizing, and tender moments of a war which, with the death of each man or woman who lived through it, recedes just a little bit further into the nation's past." He accomplished that and so much more.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Statement "In Memoriam

Chronology The Italian Campaign: 1943-1945

1. In the Beginning There Was Basic Training

2. Ninety-Day Wonder

3. Innocent Abroad

4. Mt. Porchia: The Legacy of a Battle

5. Cassino-January 1944

6. Anzio: The German Counterattack-February 1944

7. Anzio: Stalemate-March-April 1944

8. Anzio: Breakout and Holiday

9. Pontedera: Close Encounters of a Dangerous Kind

10. Bombiana and Porretta Terme

11. Winter 1945

12. Holding the High Ground

13. The Last Offensive: Eight Days in the Mountains

14. The Last Offensive: Twelve Days in the Valley

15. That Italian Spring-May-June 1945

16. The End of Everything.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9780826262431

0826262430

OCLC:

70734621