From Omaha Beach to Nuremberg : a memoir of World War II combat and the International Military Tribunal

Author/Creator:: Altman, Daniel, 1921- author
Publication/Creation:: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
Format:: Book

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Full Title:: From Omaha Beach to Nuremberg : a memoir of World War II combat and the International Military Tribunal / Daniel Altman ; with Fawn Zwickel

Subjects:: Altman, Daniel,1921-
United States.Army.Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, 391st--Biography
United States.Army--Military life--History--World War, 1939-1945
International Military Tribunal
World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
New York (N.Y.)--Biography

Table of Contents:: Hell -- Lucky Foot -- Starving and Battered -- Surviving Normandy -- Face to Face with the Siegfried Line -- Woodland Splinters -- Snow, Blood, Bodies and Shit -- My Private Battle of the Bulge -- War's-Over Off to the Next Assignment -- Camp Ashcan -- Transporting Guilty Cargo -- Haunted Forever -- Camp #219, Dachau -- Buchenwald -- Bergen Belsen and Auschwitz -- Standing Guard at Nuremberg -- Homesick -- The Final Ride Home -- Trouble Over the Atlantic Basin -- Killing Time to Stay Alive -- Fixing the Propeller -- An Empty Welcome Home -- A Changed Man at the VA -- Compartmentalizing.
Bibliography:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:: "A tough Jewish kid from the Bronx, Dan Altman enlisted in the Army when the U.S. entered World War II. Adapting street smarts to soldiering, he became a skilled sharpshooter and attained the rank of sergeant in the 1st Infantry Division. On D-Day, Altman's unit was among the second wave to the assault the German defenses at Normandy. Surviving the invasion, the fighting in the lethal hedgerow country and the Hurtgen Forest, and the Battle of the Bulge, he was later assigned to gather information on Nazi atrocities for the trials at Nuremburg. Beginning with his plunge into the blood-tinged surf at Omaha Beach, his candid, often graphic memoir is presented here as told to his granddaughter."
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource (209 pages)