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Sixty days in combat : an infantryman's memoir of World War II in Europe / Dean P. Joy.
- Title
- Sixty days in combat : an infantryman's memoir of World War II in Europe / Dean P. Joy.
- Author
- Joy, Dean P., 1924-
- Publication
- New York : Ballantine Books, 2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | D769.3 71st .J69 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xv, 265 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- BN. Overview. ?The infantryman{u2019}s war is . . . without the slightest doubt the dirtiest, roughest job of them all.? He went in as a military history buff, a virgin, and a teetotaler. He came out with a war bride, a taste for German beer, and intimate knowledge of one of the darkest parts of history. His name is Dean Joy, and this was his war. For two months in 1945, Joy endured and survived the everyday deprivations and dangers of being a frontline infantryman. His amazingly detailed memoir, self-illustrated with numerous scenes Joy remembers from his time in Europe, brings back the sights, sounds, and smells of the experience as few books ever have. Here is the story of a young man who dreamed of flying fighter aircraft and instead was chosen to be cannon fodder in France and Germany . . . who witnessed the brutality of Nazis killing Allied medics by using the cross on their helmets as targets . . . and who narrowly escaped being wounded or killed in several ?near miss? episodes, the last of which occurred on his last day of combat. Sixty Days in Combat re-creates all the drama of the ?dogface{u2019}s? fight, a time that changed one young man in a war that changed the world."
- Alternative Title
- Infantryman's memoir of World War II in Europe
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Personal narratives
- Biographies
- Personal narratives – American
- Récits personnels.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pt. 1. Reluctant volunteer: June 12, 1942, to March 6, 1945. From college freshman to Army draftee: June 12, 1942 through July 2, 1943 -- The U.S. Army Air Corps: July through September 1943 -- The ASTP at Moscow: October 1943 to March 1944 -- Hunter-Liggett Military Reservation: April and May 1944 -- Fort Benning: May 25, 1944 to January 11, 1945 -- Camp Kilmer and the USS General Tasker Bliss: January 12 to February 6, 1945 -- Le Havre, Camp Old Gold and the ancient smell of France: February 6 to March 6, 1945 -- pt. 2. Combat infantryman: March 6 to 11, 1945. The front at skyline drive: Sunday, March 11, 1945 -- First time under fire: Sunday, March 11, 1945 -- First fire missions: Monday, March 12, 1945 -- First casualties and close contacts with the enemy: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, March 13, 14, and 15, 1945 -- Through the minefield to the Siegfried Line: Friday, March 16, through Thursday, March 22, 1945 -- Carnage at Pirmasens: Friday and Saturday, March 23 and 24, 1945 -- The battle for Germersheim and Lingenfeld: Sunday, March 25, 1945 -- Postmortem on the Rhine, and transfer to Patton's Third Army : Monday, March 26, through Saturday, March 31, 1945 -- Budinger Wald and the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord: Sunday, April 1, through Wednesday, April 4, 1945 -- A letter home, the warehouse at Fulda, and on to Coburg: Thursday, April 5, through Wednesday, April 11, 1945 -- Coburg, bayreuth, Pegnitz, and a roadblock in the forest: Thursday, April 12, through Friday, April 20, 1945 -- The Danube wasn't blue: Saturday, April 21, through Monday, April 30, 1945 -- The last battles: Tuesday, may 1, through Tuesday, May 8, 1945 -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 0891418393
- LCCN
- ^^2004301434
- OCLC
- 54514848
- SCSB-11957893
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library