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G Company's war : two personal accounts of the campaigns in Europe, 1944-1945 / Bruce E. Egger & Lee MacMillan Otts; edited and with commentary by Paul Roley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Egger, Bruce E., 1923-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- Soldiers--United States--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- United States. Army--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 328th. Company G--History.
- Egger, Bruce E., 1923-.
- Egger, Bruce E.
- Otts, Lee MacMillan, 1922-.
- Otts, Lee MacMillan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1992.
- Summary:
- This unique account of combat in World War II provides parallel day-to-day records of the same events as seen by two men in the same company, one an enlisted man, one an officer. G Company's War is the story of a World War II rifle company in Patton's Third Army as detailed in the journals of S/Sgt. Bruce Egger and Lt. Lee M. Otts, both of G Company, 328th Regiment, 26th infantry Division. Bruce Egger arrived in France in October 1944, and Lee Otts arrived in November. Both fought for G Company through the remainder of the war. Otts was wounded seriously
- Contents:
- Contents; Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue; 1. First Blood; 2. The Mud of Lorraine; 3. Transition: From Lorraine to Metz; 4. Into the Bulge; 5. Victory in the Ardennes; 6. The Saarlautern Interlude; 7. The Drive to the Rhine; 8. The Race across Germany; Epilogue; Appendix I: The Reckoning; Appendix II: Roll Call; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-286) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8089-2
- 0-585-27320-0
- OCLC:
- 813218418
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