G Company's war : two personal accounts of the campaigns in Europe, 1944-1945

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Full Title:: 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

Subjects:: Egger, Bruce E.,1923-
Otts, Lee MacMillan,1922-
United States.Army--Biography
United States.Army.Infantry Regiment, 328th.Company G--History
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
Soldiers--United States--Biography

Table of 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
Bibliography:: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-286) and index.
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
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource (305 p.)
General Note:: Description based upon print version of record.