To D-Day and back : adventures with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment and life as a World War II POW /: adventures with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment and life as a World War II POW. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Bob Bearden.
• Other Names: Bearden, Bob, 1922-
• Contents: Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: DOING MY BIT -- One: Texas National Guard, 144th Infantry -- Two: Parachute School, Fort Benning, Georgia -- Three: 507th Cast of Characters -- Four: Payday Parties -- Five: Training Jumps in a Peanut Patch -- Six: Louisiana Maneuvers, 1943 -- Seven: Rodeo Jump: Alliance, Nebraska, August 1943 -- Eight: The Jumping Mascot -- Nine: Sedalia, Missouri, Jump -- Ten: Taking My Exclusive Furlough to Wyoming -- Eleven: The 507th PIR in Northern Ireland Twelve: Jolly Olde England: Fish and Chips, 507th StylePART II: D-DAY AND THE BATTLE FOR NORMANDY -- Thirteen: D-Day Jump and the Little French Maid -- Fourteen: Assembly -- Fifteen: The Battle for Fresville -- Sixteen: Taylorâ€?s Group: Bundle Duty and Ear Injury -- Seventeen: Millettâ€?s Group: My Hottest Day of the War -- Eighteen: Avoid Crossing God in Combat -- Nineteen: Patrols and Moving Out -- Twenty: Capture -- PART III: TOURING EUROPE 10TH CLASS: MY LIFE AS A POW -- Twenty-One: From St. Lo to Alencon Twenty-Two: We Lay Tracks, Dig Bombs, and Play NurseTwenty-Three: Gimme Shelter -- Twenty-Four: Buttered French Bread -- Twenty-Five: Alencon-Paris and a Meeting with the Berlin Bitch -- Twenty-Six: Victory Is Sweet -- Twenty-Seven: A Boxcar Ride to Stalag XIIA: Horrors by Day or Night -- Twenty-Eight: Stalag IVB to Stalag IIIC: Learning the Ropes as a POW -- Twenty-Nine: Stalag IIIC, Kuestrin:Willkommen! -- Thirty: Daily Life at Stalag IIIC: Pals So Good and True -- Thirty-One: Red Cross to the Rescue Thirty-Two: Deutsch fur Amerikaner: Swaps and Scams at Stalag IIICThirty-Three: Life and Death (Mostly Death): The French and Russian Compounds -- Thirty-Four: The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! -- Part IV: THE RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE: OR, HEADING EAST TO GO WEST -- Thirty-Five: Vodka, Vodka, Everywhere, and Plenty of It to Drink -- Postscript: Taking the Ankle Express Home -- Maps
• Publisher Details: St. Paul, MN, USA : Zenith Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (298 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 940.54/1273092; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German; Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography; Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography; Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Prisonniers et prisons des Allemands; Prisonniers de guerre -- Allemagne -- Biographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical; HISTORY -- Military -- World War II; Armed Forces -- Parachute troops; Military campaigns; Military operations, Aerial -- American; Prisoners of war; Normandy (France) -- History, Military -- 20th century; France -- Normandy; Germany; United States; Autobiography; Biography; Personal Narrative; Electronic books; Personal narratives; Autobiographies; Biographies; Military history; Personal narratives -- American; Autobiographies; Biographies; Personal narratives; Autobiographies; Biographies; Récits personnels; Parachute troops -- Biography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781616737658; 1616737654; 1299931448; 9781299931442
• Related ISBNs: 9780760332580; 0760332584
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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