Shifty's War
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See also Bastogne (Belgium)
Berchtesgaden (Germany)
Blackstone (Virginia)
Blithe, Albert
Blue Ridge Mountains
Bois Jacques woods (Belgium)
bone cancer (Shifty)
boot camp, U.S. Army
Bowers, Jacqueline Havaux
Brecourt Manor (France)
Brewer, Bob (Lieutenant)
Bristol (Virginia)
British Hawkins mines
British troops. See England
Brotherton, Marcus
Buckloe (Germany)
”bulletproof” paratroopers
C-47s
California and Shifty
Campbell, James
Camp Mackall (North Carolina)
Camp Mourmelon (France)
Champagne Bowl
champagne fight
conditions
craziness in Paris
festive atmosphere
food
grenades and poker playing
passes issued
poker playing
reserve at
retreat parade
sports and
Camp Pickett (Virginia)
Camp Shanks (New York)
Camp Toccoa/Toombs (Georgia)
cancer treatments (Shifty)
career problems after WWII (Shifty)
Carentan (France)
Carson, Gordy
Castlewood (Virginia)
casualties and wounded
Bastogne (Belgium)
British troops
Carentan (France)
D-day
German
Haguenau
Operation Market-Garden (Holland)
training of paratroopers
cat thrown at waiter by Wynn
Charlotte (North Carolina)
Chelseas (cigarettes)
Cherbourg (France)
chickenshit (Sobel)
Christenson, Burton “Pat,”
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Clemente, Roberto
Clinchco (Virginia)
Clinchfield Coal Mine Company
Clintwood (Virginia)
coaching sports, Shifty
coins and marksmanship (Shifty)
Cologne (Germany)
Columbus (Ohio)
Colville Reservation (Washington)
Compton, Buck (Lieutenant)
concentration camp in Germany
confidence of paratroopers
Cooper, James Fenimore
Copenhaven, Richard
court-martial attempt of Winters by Sobel
Craigslist
craziness by McClung, Shifty, and Wynn
CyberKnife
Czechoslovakia
Dave’s Ridge (Virginia)
D-day
antiaircraft fire
casualties
delay of
Eisenhower’s encouragement
Flight
jeep blown up
jump into
last supper
lost paratroopers
memories of
motion sickness pills
passwords (“Flash” and “Thunder”)
preparation for
sixtieth anniversary of
”three days of hard fighting,”
weather conditions
See also Normandy (France)
Denmark
Dickenson County (Virginia)
Diel, James
Dike, Norman “Foxhole Norman” (Lieutenant)
dill pickle cravings by Shifty
Dittrich, Rudolph (Private)
Dog Companyh PIR
Dornmagen (Germany)
draft, WWII
Draftee (mascot)
dreams of soldiers, Bastogne (Belgium) See also memories of WWII
drinking by soldiers
Dukeman, Bill
Duke University
DUKWs
Dutch civilians, support of Allies
Duty (Virginia)
Eagle’s Nest, Berchtesgaden (Germany)
Easy Company Parachute Infantry Regiment Airborne Division
Band of Brothers and
death, facing
leadership changes
Purple Hearts
replacements
reunions
See also Alley, Jim “Moe” (Sergeant); Band of Brothers; Bastogne (Belgium); Camp Mourmelon (France); casualties and wounded; D-day; 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment; Kiehn, Bill; Lipton, Carwood (Captain); McClung, Earl “One Lung”; 101st Airborne Division “Screaming Eagles”; Operation Market-Garden (Holland); paratroopers; Powers, Darrell “Shifty”; Rogers, Paul “Hayseed” (Sergeant); Sobel, Herbert “Black Swan” (Captain); Taylor, Amos “Buck” (Sergeant); training of paratroopers; United States of America; Winters, Dick (Major); World War II; Wynn, Robert E., Jr. “Popeye”
88 guns (German)
Eindhoven (Netherlands)
Eisenhower, Dwight (General)
Ellis Island (New York)
Emmy Awards
England
Aldbourne (England)
Berlin jump by British troops
British Hawkins mines
British people liked by Shifty
British pilot joke by Wynn
casualties
casualties
Operation Market-Garden (Holland)
tanks
whorehouse in England
See also World War II
enlisting in U.S. Army
Evans, Bill (Sergeant)
expert rifleman
explanations for war
Facebook
fame of Shifty
farmers and freedom
feet problems, Bastogne (Belgium)
Field & Stream
First Battalion PIR
First Platoon PIR
fishing and Shifty
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment See also Easy Company; 101st Airborne Division “Screaming Eagles”; specific battalions, companies, and platoons
502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment
Fleming, Ian
Fleming, Johnny
Flight 66, D-day
flooding land by Germany
Foley, Jack
Food City (Virginia)
food shortage, Bastogne (Belgium)
Ford, Tennessee Ernie
Fort Benning (Georgia)
Fort Bragg (North Carolina)
Fort Pickett (Virginia)
Fox Company PIR
foxholes
Bastogne (Belgium)
paratroopers and
Fox News
Foy (Belgium)
France
Carentan
Haguenau
Paris
See also Camp Mourmelon (France); D-day; World War II
freedom, fighting for
French restaurant, McClung, Shifty, and Wynn
friendly fire incident, Bastogne (Belgium)
Frying Pan (Virginia)
gardening and Shifty
Georgia National Guard
Germany
Alley (Sergeant) vs. tank
Berchtesgaden (Germany)
Buckloe (Germany)
casualties
Cologne (Germany)
concentration camp
dead German soldier for foxhole insulation, Bastogne (Belgium)
dead soldiers, D-day
Dornmagen (Germany)
dressed as American soldiers
Eagle’s Nest in Berchtesgaden
88 guns
expansion by
flooding land by
Goering’s liquor stash
guard duty
Hitler and
homes used by American soldiers
martial law in
mortar fire
Nazis
night shelling by, Bastogne (Belgium)
”Nuts!” response by Americans to surrender demands, Bastogne (Belgium)
people similar to
Americans
POWs (German)
rebuilding by German civilians
similarity to Americans
snipers
souvenirs from
surrendering by
tanks
tracers
weapons carrier destroyed
weapons of
See also Bastogne (Belgium); Camp Mourmelon (France); D-day; Operation Market-Garden (Holland); World War II
G.I. Bill
Glendale Leagues (California)
Glenn, John
Goering’s liquor stash
Gordon, Walter (Private)
Great Depression
Greece
Green Berets
grenades and poker playing
Grill, The (restaurant)
Guarnere, Bill “Wild Bill,”
Guarnere, Henry
Guth, Forrest “Goody,”
Haguenau (France)
Ham, Mary Katherine
Hanks, Tom
Hanson, Hack
Hawkins, John Wesley
Headquartersh PIR
health problems of Shifty
Heffron, Babe
Hell’s Highway accident, Taylor (Sergeant)
hero, Shifty as
Heyliger, Fredrick “Moose” (Lieutenant)
Hills, Peter Youngblood
Hitler, Adolf See also Germany
”hold the line at all costs,” Bastogne (Belgium)
Holland See also Operation Market-Garden
home, difference after WWII
homes in Germany used by Americans
Hoobler, Don
hope, caution, Haguenau (France)
Howell, Bill
Hungary
hunting and Shifty
hysterical blindness
Iraq tour
Island, The
Jackson (Mississippi)
Jackson, Eugene (Private)
Jackson, Michael
James Bond (Fleming)
Japan
Pearl Harbor attack
tour
See also World War II
Jesus and Winters (Major)
job-freezing of essential jobs in U.S.
Johnson, Dawnyale “Dawnypoo” (Shifty’s granddaughter-in-law)
Johnson, Gavin (Shifty’s great-grandson)
Johnson, Jake “Jakefellar” (Shifty’s grandson)
Johnson, Luke “Pookus” (Shifty’s grandson)
Johnson, Margo “Marjo,” “Sissybug” (Shifty’s and Dorothy’s daughter)
Johnson, Seldon (Shifty’s son-in-law)
Joliet (Illinois)
jump pay
jump school
jump wings
Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia)
Kiehn, Bill
AWOL
Bastogne (Belgium)
Camp Mourmelon (France)
Camp Toccoa (Georgia)
Carentan (France)
D-day
death of
Haguenau (France)
Operation Market-Garden (Holland)
retreat parade preparation
Shifty Powers and
shooting (almost) by Shifty
Taylor and
wounds of
King, Claude “Pee Wee,”
King, Don
Kitty Hawk (North Carolina)
K-rations
L’Amour, Louis
Last of the Breed (L’Amour)
Last of the Mohicans (Cooper)
Latvia
Lavenson, George (Lieutenant)
leadership changes in Easy Company
leadership skills of Winters
leg bags
Lesniewski, Joe
Liebgott, Joe
life insurance and paratroopers
Life magazine
Lipton, Carwood (Captain)
Band of Brothers and
Bastogne (Belgium)
Camp Mourmelon (France)
Carentan (France)
Haguenau (France)
Shifty Powers and
wounds of
listening, Shifty learning
listening outposts
Bastogne (Belgium)
Operation Market-Garden (Holland)
Lithuania
Little League baseball and Shifty
lives changed by Band of Brothers
London (England)
lost paratroopers, D-day
lottery to go home (Taylor’s)
Low Gap legend
Lowrey, Dewitt
Lucky Strikes (cigarettes)
Luxembourg
Luz, George
Lyall, Clancy
M1 rifle and Shifty
M1 rifles
machinist, Shifty as
Mackall, Tommy (Private)
macular degeneration (MD)
Mae West lifejackets
Malarkey, Don
Mampre, Al
Manchester (England)
march from Camp Toccoa (Georgia) to Fort Benning (Georgia)
Market Garden. See Operation Market-Garden (Holland)
marksmanship skills of Shifty See also sharpshooting skills
Martin, Johnny
M*A*S*H (TV show)
McClung, Earl “One Lung”
Bastogne (Belgium)
Berchtesgaden (Germany)
Camp Mourmelon (France)
craziness in Paris
D-day
Emmy Awards
Foy (Belgium)
French restaurant
garrison duty vs. combat
Haguenau (France)
jackrabbit shot and cooked by
Operation Market-Garden (Holland)
Red Baron shot down by
retreat parade preparation
scouting skills
sharpshooting skills
Shifty Powers and
stove taken from train station
whorehouse in England
woodsman skills of
meals, homemade
Meehan, Thomas (Lieutenant)
Mellett, Frank
”Memorial Service: You’re Invited” (Pfeifer)
memories of WWII
See also dreams
Men of Easy Company Association
Menze, Vernon
Methodists
Miller, Bill
Miller, James
Missionary Baptist Association
mistake corrected in Band of Brothers
Moder River
Moone, Don (Private)
Moore, Walter (Lieutenant)
Moss Number 3 Mine
motion sickness pills, D-day
Mountain Empire Community College
mountain man skills of Shifty
Mount Currahee (Camp Toccoa)
Muck, Warren “Skip,”
mutiny by noncommissioned officers (NCOs)
Navy Times
Nazis
NBC News
Niagara River
Nickles, Rufus Edward “Shanghai,”
night jump training
Niland, Fritz “Private Ryan,”
noncommissioned officers (NCOs) mutiny
Nora Braves
Normandy (France)
See also D-day
North Africa
North Forty (Shifty’s garden)
North Holly wood (California)
Norton (Virginia)
Norway
Noville (Belgium)
Nuenan (Netherlands)
”Nuts!” response by Americans to German surrender demands, Bastogne (Belgium)
officers (respected) at training
Oglethorpe University
101st Airborne Division “Screaming Eagles”
inactivation of
organization chart
Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation
Saving Private Ryan (movie)
See also Easy Company; 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment; paratroopers
Operation Market-Garden (Holland)
> airborne divisions involved
American POWs freed
American tanks
blur of battles
British tanks
British troops
casualties
combat patrol
Dutch civilians, support of Allies
Eindhoven (Netherlands)
failure
German POWs
Germans dressed as American soldiers
German tanks
German weapons carrier destroyed
Island, The
jump into
listening outposts
mail call
Nuenan (Netherlands)
Red Baron shot down by McClung
Veghel (Netherlands)
Wilhelmina Canal bridge
packing chutes
paratroopers
ammunition belt
blousing trousers
”bulletproof” feeling
C-47s
confidence of
elite troopers
first paratrooper to die in WWII
foxholes
gear
joining
jump pay
K-rations
leg bags
life insurance
M1 rifles
musette bags
parental signature required to join
risers
stick
uniforms
U.S. Navy vs.
weapons of
See also 101st Airborne Division “Screaming Eagles”; Powers, Darrell “Shifty” (Sergeant); training of paratroopers
Paris (France)
Paso Robles (California)
passwords (“Flash,” “Thunder”), D-day
patriotism in U.S.
pay, U.S. Army
Pearl Harbor attack
Penkala, Alex
Pepping, Ed
Perconte, Frank
Peruginni, Phil (Private First Class)
Pfeifer, Mark
physical training
picking slate
Pierce, Dr. “Hawkeye,”
Pink Room (Virginia)
platoons, 506th PIR
Playtone Studios
points needed, U.S. Army discharge
poker playing
Poland
Portsmouth (New Hampshire)
Pound, The (Virginia)
Powers, Darrell “Shifty” (childhood and youth)
Clinchco (Virginia) and
coins and marksmanship of
Dave’s Ridge (Virginia)
Easter egg hunt
education of
enlisting in U.S. Army
fight, avoiding
girls and
listening, learning how
Low Gap legend
marksmanship skills of
Navy Shipyard work
radio listened to
shoe shinning by
switchblade carried by
target practice
Wynn and
Powers, Darrell “Shifty” (family)
Amanda Powers “Mandy Pandy” (Shifty’s granddaughter-in-law)
Audrey (Shifty’s mother)