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A Company of Heroes

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by Marcus Brotherton


  disabled

  discharge

  early years

  enlistment

  family man

  honor

  humor

  integrity

  letters

  love of water

  money and

  paradoxical figure

  paratrooper

  Purple Heart

  religious life

  war years

  work ethic

  wounded

  Gordon, Walter Scott

  Grant, Chuck

  Great Depression

  Gross, Jerre S.

  Guarnere, Bill

  battle-hardened

  on pictures

  records of

  recuperating

  smuggling girls

  surrogate uncle

  tribute to

  TV character

  wounded

  Guth, Forrest (“Gutty”)

  paratrooper

  winning lottery

  Hagenau

  Haitian abandoned children

  Haiti earthquake

  Hanks, Tom

  Hanson, Herman (“Hack”)

  death

  debating by

  good time philosophy

  integrity

  pancakes at breakfast

  sports and

  successes

  wounded

  Harris, Terrence (“Salty”)

  at Carentan

  grave

  paratrooper

  pathfinder

  Ranney, M., on

  Smith, B., on

  Sobel mutiny and

  Hashey, Les

  Heffron, Babe

  Henry V

  Heroism

  defined

  Muck, W.

  Hess, Rudolf

  Heyliger, Diane

  Heyliger, Evelyn

  Heyliger, Fred, Jr.

  Heyliger, Frederick (“Moose”)

  Boy Scout

  bravery

  death

  early years

  fall migration and

  horticulture and

  leader

  life outside

  meaning well

  nightmares

  paratrooper

  religious life

  remembering

  rescue mission

  sense of humor

  sidestepping by

  straightforward

  Winters on

  wounded

  Heyliger, John

  Heyliger, Mary

  Heyliger, Ted

  Himes, John R.

  Hitler, Adolph. See also Eagle’s Nest; Nazis

  Hitler’s Nest. See Eagle’s Nest

  Hitler Youth

  Honesty

  Honey

  Honor

  Gordon, W.

  Liebgott, J.

  Rader, R. J.

  Hoobler, Don

  Howell, William

  Huck Finn’s Rhythmaires

  Huff, Eric

  Huff, Ivan

  Hughes, Frank John

  Hunt, Arlene

  Hutchinson, Julia

  Hyett, LaVon Ruth

  Hyland, Karen Hanson

  Hysterical blindness

  Immortality

  Integrity

  Gordon, W.

  Hanson, H.

  Interrogation methods

  Iranian hostage crisis

  Janovic, John

  Jews

  Johnson, Coburn

  Joint, Ed

  Kavanaugh, Margie Evans

  Kennedy, John

  Kersey, Rhonda

  Kingseed, Cole

  Klinkert, Johnny

  Korean War

  Blithe, A., in

  Garcia, T., in

  Speirs, Ron, in

  Koskimaki, George

  Krabacher, Susie

  LaFalce, John

  LaFleur, Ruth Muck

  Lager, Harry

  Lalanne, Jack

  Lamoureux, Jerry

  Lamoureux, Paul (“Frenchy”)

  card player

  first platoon man

  “lost man”

  one of guys

  paratrooper

  reconnecting with Winters

  religious life

  Lamoureux, Rita

  Lamoureux, Susan

  Langlois, Chris

  Langlois, Marlene

  Lardy cakes

  Larson, Lois

  Lavenson, George

  athlete

  fighting way into Easy Company

  living on through freedom

  as name on list

  newspaper reporter

  paratrooper

  patriotism

  on plane home

  remembering

  strength

  tree struck by lightning

  Lavenson, Joanne

  Lavenson, Joel

  Leadership

  Christenson, B., on styles

  Heyliger, F.

  Speirs, Ron

  Toye, Joe

  Winters

  Legacy

  Easy Company

  Muck, W.

  Van Klinken, R.

  LeMaire, Renée

  Lesniewski, Joe

  Letters

  Ambrose, S.

  Easy Company newsletters

  Gordon, W.

  Muck, W.

  Penkala, A., Jr.

  Rader, R. J.

  to/from Winters

  Van Klinken, R.

  Lewandowski, Richard

  Lichatowich, Jimmy

  Liebgott, Jim

  Liebgott, Joseph (“Joe”)

  as barber

  bigotry and

  bravery

  Bronze Star

  as compulsive

  death

  devoted grandfather

  family and

  friends of

  honor

  interpreter

  paratrooper

  prisoners and

  Purple Heart

  quirks

  religious life

  as thrifty

  wounded

  Liebgott, Peggy

  Lipton, C. Carwood

  on Brécourt Manor

  on Carentan

  death

  dedicated soldier

  as dependable

  disciplinarian

  drive of

  elephant’s typewriter

  engineer

  family man

  flamethrowing

  hell-raiser

  paratrooper

  rabbit hunting

  sense of humor

  stories of

  TV character

  wounded

  Lipton, Mike

  Longo, Philip

  Lopez, Gloria

  Ludeau, Betty Ball

  Luz, George, Sr.

  Lyall, Clancy

  Mahoney, Marie Hope

  Malarkey, Don

  Malley, Charlie

  Marsh, Jean

  Marsh, Robert

  alcoholism and

  death

  as good person

  last years

  letting go

  in misery

  ”out there”

  religious life

  self/loathing/guilt

  as strict disciplinarian

  suicide attempt

  war and

  work ethic

  wounded

  Martin, Johnny

  Matheson, Salve

  Mathews, Robert

  Matkins, J. R.

  Matthews, Tim

  Matz, Leo

  Mauldin, Bill

  Maynard, Bill

  McClung, Earl

  McCreary, Thomas

  McGrath, Jack

  Mears, Kelly

  Mecham, Frank

  Meehan, Thomas

  Menze, Vernon

  Mercy & Sharing Foundation

  Miller, James

  Moore, Walt
er

  Muck, Elmer

  Muck, Warren (“Skip”)

  athlete

  Bronze Star

  Distinguished Unit Citations

  early years

  heroism

  honesty

  killed in foxhole

  legacy

  letters

  as loved

  magnetism

  paratrooper

  Purple Heart

  religious life

  Speight on

  swimming Niagara River

  war stories

  Nazis

  Newman, Jean

  New York Times

  ”The Night of the Bayonette”

  Niland, Edward

  Niland, Frederick (“Fritz”)

  Niland, Pete

  Niland, Robert

  Nixon, Lewis

  Normandy. See D-Day invasion

  Nuenen

  O’Hara, Eileen LaFleur

  O’Hara, John

  O’Hara, Ruth Muck

  Ohio National Guard

  O’Keefe, Cornelius

  O’Keefe, Kevin

  O’Keefe, Kris

  O’Keefe, Mike

  O’Keefe, Patrick

  as gentlemanly

  as Irish replacement

  jokes

  last jump

  living on purpose

  one hundred ways to say hello

  on parachute jump

  paratrooper

  religious life

  TV character

  ”On Eagle’s Wings”

  Operation Market-Garden

  backfiring

  as “parade ground jump”

  reunions

  Parachute Infantry (Webster)

  Parachute jumping

  Carson, Gordon, on

  in combat

  dangers

  Garcia, T.

  ”guts” for

  O’Keefe, P., on

  Penkala, A., Jr.

  Rader, R. J.

  shock harness

  training of Ranney, M.

  Winters

  wounded in

  Paratroopers

  best of best

  Blithe, A.

  bravado

  British

  Carson, Gordon

  Christenson, B.

  danger in

  defined

  duties of

  Evans, B.

  extra pay

  German

  Gordon, W.

  Guth, F.

  Harris, T.

  Heyliger, F.

  Japanese

  jump wings

  Lamoureux, P.

  Lavenson, G.

  Liebgott, J.

  Lipton, C. C.

  in movies

  Muck, W.

  O’Keefe, P.

  Penkala, A., Jr.

  planes carrying

  Potter, G. L., Jr.

  Talbert, F.

  Toye, Joe

  Van Klinken, R.

  wives of

  Pathfinders. See also Sticks

  Bastogne mission

  Fenstermaker, C.

  Harris, T.

  Malley, C.

  Ranney, M.

  Reese, L.

  Wright, D.

  Patriotism

  Lavenson, G.

  Toye, Joe

  Patton, George S.

  Peacock, Thomas A.

  Pearl Harbor attack

  Penkala, Alex, Jr.

  athlete

  cook

  early years

  killed in foxhole

  letters

  paratrooper

  remembering

  Penkala, Tim

  Perconte, Frank

  Piatak, Alyssa

  Pill squirter

  Plane

  Porsche, Ferdinand

  Post-traumatic stress

  Potter, Bob

  Potter, Daniel

  Potter, George L., Jr.

  alcoholism and

  autograph

  Bronze Star

  haunted/consumed

  innovative journalist

  on motorbike in Swindon

  paratrooper

  remembering

  stories of

  Potter, Tom

  Powel, Colin

  Powers, Shifty

  Prisoners

  Liebgott, J., and

  Speirs, Ron, and

  Toye, Joe, capturing live

  Winters’ orders on

  Puchalska, Antonia (“Toni”)

  at Auschwitz

  with Carson, Gordon

  death

  first marriage

  as Polish blond

  Puchalska, Irene

  Purple Heart

  Gordon, W.

  Liebgott, J.

  Muck, W.

  Rader, R. J., turning down

  Roe, E.

  Toye, Joe

  Van Klinken, R.

  Push master

  Rader, Donald

  Rader, Lucille

  Rader, Robert J.

  battered/frozen

  bravery

  Bronze Star

  honor

  lardy cakes and

  letters

  parachute jumping

  Purple Heart turned down by

  push master

  Robert J. Rader Memorial Bridge

  standing tall

  strict but fair

  teacher/coach

  volunteer fireman

  Rader, Robin

  Randleman, Denver (“Bull”)

  Ranney, Myron (“Mike”)

  authority and

  on blessings

  boxer

  as caring

  on childhood surroundings

  company of heroes quote

  daily adventure

  on D-Day invasion

  on drinking

  on Easy Company training

  father

  on Harris, T.

  health challenges

  on homecoming

  on immortality

  journalist

  parachute jumping training

  pathfinder

  on remarkable time

  risk-taker

  on Samaria

  on Sobel mutiny

  ups/downs

  on wounding self

  Reagan, Ronald

  Red Cross

  Reese, Bernice

  Reese, LaVon

  alcoholism and

  death

  history and

  pathfinder

  picking fights

  respect for

  rough upbringing

  sports and

  teacher

  Winters on

  Religious life

  Garcia, T.

  Gordon, W.

  Heyliger, F.

  Lamoureux, P.

  Liebgott, J.

  Marsh, R.

  Muck, W.

  O’Keefe, P.

  Speirs, Ron

  Toye, Joe

  Remembering

  Blithe, A.

  Evans, B.

  Heyliger, F.

  Lavenson, G.

  Penkala, A., Jr.

  Potter, G. L., Jr.

  Roe, E.

  Speirs, Ron

  Van Klinken, R.

  Resistance

  Respect

  for Reese, L.

  for Sobel, H.

  for Speirs, Ron

  for Toye, Joe

  Right stuff

  Rigoni, Mary Carroll

  Robbins, Woodrow

  Robert J. Rader Memorial Bridge

  Roe, Eugene (“Doc”)

  brilliance of

  calmness of

  death

  dyeing hair

  English courtship

  family man

  growing up on bayou

  homecoming

  independence of

  Purple Heart

  remembering

  Silver Sta
r

  TV character

  in World War II museum

  wounded

  Roe, Eugene, Jr.

  Roe, Vera

  Rogers, Johnnie

  Rogers, Paul

  Rood, Marcia Reese

  Samaria

  Saving Private Ryan

  Sawosko, Carl

  Schmitz, Raymond G.

  Sears Tower

  Shakespeare, William

  Silver Star

  Blithe, A.

  Roe, E.

  Speirs, Ron

  Sinatra, Frank

  Sink, Robert

  Sisk, Wayne (“Skinny”)

  Smith, Burr

  on Harris, T.

  Smith, George

  Sobel, Herbert

  as “The Black Swan”

  as controversial

  mutiny against

  respect for

  Spain, Doug

  Speight, Richard

  on Muck, W.

  Speirs, Elsie

  Speirs, Robert

  Speirs, Ron

  on Bastogne

  debunking rumors

  early years

  as feared

  in Korean War

  leader

  legend

  prisoners and

  religious life

  remembering

  respect for

  Russian liaison

  Silver Star

  wounded

  Spielberg, Stephen

  Spina, Ralph

  Sports

  Hanson, H., and

  Reese, L., and

  Staal, Lies

  Sticks

  Stimson, Henry L.

  Strayer, Millie

  Strayer, Robert

  Supermen

  Switzer, Linda

  Talbert, Floyd (“Tab”)

  athlete

  common sense

  early years

  guitar playing

  one of best

  paratrooper

  setting record straight

  Winters on

  wounded

  Talbert, Kenneth

  Talbert, Linda

  Talbert, Max

  Talbert, Robert

  Tank attack

  Tanner, Faye

  Tatay, Evelyn

  Tatay, Rudolph

  Taylor, Amos (“Buck”)

  Taylor, Maxwell

  Terrorism

  Tipper, Ed

  back from dead

  Tircuit, Derek

  Tircuit, Kyle

  Tittle, Marilyn

  Toccoa men. See also Easy Company; Paratroopers

  Atlanta march

  Christenson, B., as toughest

  reputation as Supermen

  Toye, Eleanor

  Toye, Joe

  alcoholism and

  big heart, ice covered

  capturing live prisoner

  cook

  death

  leader

  nightmares

  paratrooper

  patriotism

  Purple Heart

  religious life

  respect for

  tough/intense

  TV character

  weight lifting/walking

  Winters eulogizing

  worthwhile life

  wounded

  Toye, Jonathan

  Toye, Pete

  Toye, Steve

  Tree bursts

  Truman, Harry S.

  Turner, Annette Harris

  Turner, Brady

  TV character

  Blithe, A.

  Garcia, T.

  Guarnere, B.

  Lipton, C. C.

  O’Keefe, P.

  Roe, E.

  Toye, Joe

  Tyranny

  U-boats

 

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