The D-Days of Europe: An Assault Boater's Memoir

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ISBN: 9780738825809 | 0738825808
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/1/2000

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Battles	p. 13
Preface	p. 15

Licata Harbor, Sicily, D-Day+2 July 12, 1943	p. 17
Navy Recruiting, Hollywood March 22, 1942	p. 19
1400 March 22, 1942, Downtown L.A.	p. 19
Montana	p. 22

Growing Up in Casper	p. 25

On the Road	p. 31

College	p. 40
1941 University of California at Los Angeles	p. 45
The Bullocks	p. 45

Los Angeles	p. 46
The Ellwood Incident at Santa Barbara, February 23, 1942	p. 47
The Great Los Angeles Air Raid, February 25, 1942, 2:25AM	p. 48
USN Bureau of Personnel, July 1942	p. 49

Midshipmen's School, Columbia University October 26, 1942	p. 51
USS Prairie State	p. 52
USS John Jay Hall	p. 54
The Classes	p. 57
Chowtime	p. 63
Carnegie Hall	p. 64
The Bob and Syd Duet	p. 65
A Physicist	p. 65
The Cat's Cradle Test	p. 66
Las Vegas, Nevada	p. 67
Gail	p. 68

Little Creek, VA, Ensign, Deck Volunteer (General), USNR	p. 69
Landing Craft Training Base, Little Creek, March 14, 1943	p. 70
Landing Ship Tank 350, March 19, 1943, Newport News, Virginia	p. 71
What is an Lst?	p. 72
General Quarters!	p. 76
Manhattan, Pier 92	p. 78
The Brooklyn Naval Yard, March 21, 1943	p. 78
USN Receiving Ship Pier 92, West 52nd St.	p. 79
Flotilla 1, LST372, Northward Bound, April 5, 1943	p. 81
LST372 Halifax, Nova Scotia, April 7, 1943	p. 82
Bermuda, Flotsam in the Horse Latitudes, April, 1943	p. 85
Group Trutz	p. 87
LST372, Gibraltar	p. 87

North Africa, Arzew, Algeria--Advanced Amphibious Base, May 4, 1943	p. 89
Mostaganem	p. 92
The us Army Ranger Tragedy	p. 92
Tenes, Algeria, May 29, 1943	p. 93
LCVP Flotilla Wright-Vance in the Mediterranean Sea, May 29, 1943	p. 94
LST309, Tenes, Algeria, May 30, 1943	p. 96
The Village of Tenes	p. 96
Bizerte, Tunisia, May 9, 1943	p. 98
Tunis, Tunisia	p. 100

Operation Husky, America's Secret Amphibious Force	p. 103
LSTs, LSDs, LCIs, LCTs, LCVPs, LCRs--The Battle Flotilla One in Battle One	p. 103
LST378, the Invasion of Sicily, June 19, 1943, Bizerte, Tunisia	p. 103
The Bomb Shelter Bother	p. 105
D-3 Sicily, July, 1943	p. 106
John Joseph Parle, D-1 the Husky Armada, Assault on Sicily, July 9, 1943	p. 108
Task Force 86 at Sea	p. 109
D-Day Operation Husky, Joss Beach, July 10, 1943	p. 112
The Loss of LST313 and LST158	p. 116
Joss Beach, D+1--Bay of Gela, July 11, 1943	p. 117
The Port of Licata	p. 119
Patton's Diary, July 10, 1943	p. 120
Palermo, General Patton and Us. July 23, 1943	p. 121
The Fall of Palermo, July 22, 1943	p. 122
Patton's Navy--3 Landings on Sicily's North Shore	p. 124
Did Patton Get Bombed?	p. 124
The LST Transfer, August, 1943	p. 125
Burma	p. 125

Avalanche, The Invasion of Salerno, Italy	p. 127
LST378 at Salerno, Skipper Oberg	p. 127
Bizerte, Tunisia, September, 1943	p. 128
Tyrrhenian Sea, September 8, 1943	p. 129
The Bay of Salerno	p. 130
The Charge of LST378	p. 131
Other Beach Heroes, LST375	p. 134
Hell, September 11, 1943	p. 135
The Port of Salerno	p. 136
The Port of Taranto	p. 136
Oran, Algeria	p. 137
The Oberg Party is Over	p. 137
Bay of Algiers, December, 1943	p. 138
Les Goumiers	p. 138
Tunisia, Revisited	p. 142
Valetta, Malta	p. 146

LST 381 and Luck	p. 148
Naples, January, 1944	p. 149
The Invasion of Pozzuoli Beach	p. 149
Naples Commando H.Q., D-2 Operation Shingle Task Force, January 20, 1944	p. 150
D-1, LST381 off North Beach, Anzio, January 21, 1944	p. 152
The First LCVP Rocket Boat	p. 153
Coxswain Dal Allison, Seaman 1st Class, USNR	p. 153
0530, M-Minute, H-Hour, D-Day Operation Shingle	p. 156
M+30M--the Third Wave	p. 156
D-Day	p. 158
D plus 1	p. 160
D plus 2	p. 161
Kesselring's Counter at Tack February 6, 1944	p. 162
General Mark Clark	p. 163
Churchill and us	p. 164
The Unpleasantness at Napoli, Commodore Espy Devil #1	p. 166
Fun in Naples	p. 167
The Sirocco Devil #2	p. 168
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea	p. 169
Baia, Bay of Naples, February 11, 1944	p. 169
Bacoli, Italy, February 15, 1944	p. 170
The Game of War	p. 172
Flotsam in the angry sea	p. 172
Mers el Kabir, Oran, Algeria, March 11, 1944	p. 174
Downtown Oran	p. 174
Tlemsen, French Foreign Legion country	p. 176
Berbers	p. 178
Tlemsen, Algeria Casbah	p. 179
Arabic Hospitality	p. 180
The Spanish and Jewish Sectors	p. 181
Thoughts at Sea	p. 182

Normandy, Operation Neptune/Overlord, Our Trip to Normandy With the Heroes of Kufra Oasis	p. 184
Normandy D-Day Minus 3--Mea Culpa	p. 185
The Detail	p. 186
Falmouth, England	p. 187
Drydock Day, Falmouth, Cornwall, Janfu Drydocked, June 6, 1944	p. 188
The Date History Forgot	p. 188
Weymouth, England, June 8, 1944	p. 188
Utah Beach, Normandy, France, June 9, 1944	p. 190
Janfu at Omaha Beach, June 12, 1944	p. 192
Flag Day, June 14, 1944	p. 192
Mulberries and Gooseberries	p. 192
A Purple Heart for Janfu	p. 194
London	p. 194
Drybeach Day, June 24, 1944	p. 195
Janfu Toodle-OO Drydocked Again, Barry Wales, June 28, 1944	p. 196
Royal Navy Hq Portland Bill, August 1944	p. 198
Royal Navy Senior Quarters	p. 200
The Small Boat War at Normandy	p. 201
Cherbourg	p. 201
Saint Malo	p. 202

The Rhine Journey, Dartmouth, England, Royal Navy College, October 5, 1944	p. 204
Le Havre in the Rain	p. 205
Amiens, Via Le Chemin De La Liberation, LCVP mobile pit stop	p. 206
Walloons on the Meuse	p. 207
Andenne, la Ville Martyr	p. 207
Lcvp Bivouac Andenne and Waremme, November, 1944	p. 209
Soupe Verte	p. 210
Liege Une Jeune Fille Tres Belle	p. 211
Germany, December 10, 1944	p. 212
The Battle of the Bulge, Hitler's D-Day Null-Tag, Dec. 16, 1944	p. 212
On the High Way to Aachen, Dec. 17, 1944	p. 213
Buzz Bombs	p. 213
Kraut Paratroopers	p. 213
A Truck Cadaver	p. 214
Aachen, General Quarters on Land, December 18, 1944	p. 215
Panzers	p. 216
Farewell, Sweet Andenne Ville Martyre and Waremme, Dec 25, 1944	p. 217
The Allied Front Line	p. 217
Aachen	p. 218

Aachen, Germany, January, 1945	p. 220
The Pentagon, Bureau of Naval Personnel	p. 222
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