By Robert W. Black
With a centuries' previous warrior background, American Rangers continued the main tough education that guy might devise to beat the main tough demanding situations of the enemy and nature. For greater than fourteen months, the volunteers that made up the 2d Ranger Battalion were finely honed for strive against. Now, on June 6, 1944--D-Day--their conflict could commence. The payoff used to be to hand. because the ramps of the touchdown craft went down, rockets at the facets of the send fired ropes and grapnels skyward towards the cliff most sensible. a few ropes fell brief, males stepped into water that was once over their heads and, loaded with apparatus weighing over 100 kilos, sank like stones. Sound and fury mixed with worry and resolution. a few males considered the phrases that they had heard at any time when they have been tempted to whinge: "You volunteered."
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There were the inevitable bars and bar girls. ” The Hub was for couples, and the Wheel was for singles. The Rangers ended up at the Wheel. They could drink, meet girls and dance, or listen to the jukebox. ” The jukebox cost a nickel a song and contained the big band sounds of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Harry James. They danced to Miller’s “In the Mood,” drank beer, griped, sang “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” and “Pistol Packin’ Momma,” and tried to get past first base. Because the United States government was going to great effort to teach the soldiers to be aggressive, they frequently fought.
Army. Ranger Battalion, 2nd. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Regimental histories—United States. 3. World War, 1939–1945—Campaigns—Western Front. I. Title. 54'1273—dc22 2006008711 eISBN: 9780811752619 To Julie Rankin Fulmer, daughter of Lucy Lolli Rankin and T/5 Richard Rankin, Company A, 2nd Ranger Battalion, for her dedicated work to preserve the memory of the Rangers. Table of Contents Prologue ix CHAPTER ONE: Camp Forrest, Tennessee, April 1-September 4, 1943 1 CHAPTER TWO: Rudder 19 CHAPTER THREE: Fort Pierce, Florida: Scouts and Raiders School, September 4-15, 1943 27 CHAPTER FOUR: Fort Dix-Camp Ritchie-Camp Shanks-the Ocean Voyage, September 16-November 30, 1943 33 CHAPTER FIVE: England, Preparations for Invasion, December 1, 1943-June 5, 1944 47 CHAPTER SIX: Normandy, D-Day, June 6, 1944 83 CHAPTER SEVEN: Invasion Aftermath, June 7-August 16, 1944 153 CHAPTER EIGHT: Brest, France, August 17-September 18, 1944 165 CHAPTER NINE: To the Hürtgen Forest, September 19-November 3, 1944 187 CHAPTER TEN: Castle Hill (Hill 400), December 1-10, 1944 205 CHAPTER ELEVEN: Winter War, December 11, 1944-February 4, 1945 233 CHAPTER TWELVE: The Roer and the Rhine, February 5-March 26, 1945 245 CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Götterdämmerung, March 27 to Home 265 Epilogue 285 Appendix A: Roster of the 2nd Ranger Infantry Battalion in World War II 289 Appendix B: Table of Organization and Equipment, Ranger Infantry Battalion 317 Notes 327 Glossary 334 Bibliography 336 Acknowledgments 341 Index 345 Prologue June 6, 1944, 0700 hours.
The battalion commander and his staff would form the headquarters, and two officers and ninety-four enlisted men would make up the personnel, supply, communication, transportation, IO (intelligence and operations), mess, and medical elements of headquarters company. Soldiers did not use the phonetic name “How” for headquarters company. ” The job of the assault companies was to fight. Headquarters company sent the assault companies’ medics, radio operators, wire men, and vehicle drivers as needed and provided ammunition, supplies, and food.