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A Company of Heroes

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by Marcus Brotherton


  Van Klinken, Gene

  Van Klinken, Herman

  Van Klinken, Robert

  chiggers and

  demolition training

  early years

  family and

  on furlough

  in hospital

  on K.P.

  legacy

  letters

  in love

  mechanic

  memorial scholarship

  news of death

  optimism

  paratrooper

  Purple Heart

  remembering

  sacrifice of

  wounded

  Van Klinken, Susie

  Van Linge, Gary

  Varsek, Joan Carroll

  Wahlberg, Donnie

  War. See also Korean War

  brutality of

  Christenson, Pat, on

  Gordon, W., and

  Marsh, R., and

  trauma of

  Warren, Marc

  Watson, Joe

  Wayne, John

  The Way We Were (Guth/de Trez)

  Weather

  Webster, David Kenyon

  Welsh, Harry

  We Who Are Alive and Remain (Brotherton)

  Winchell, Walter

  Wingett, Bill

  Winn, Popeye

  Winters, Richard

  attack decision

  on Bastogne deaths

  Christenson, B., and

  collaborator

  combat plan

  Easy Company stories

  firing orders

  on Heyliger, F.

  leadership style

  letters to/from

  memoirs

  much revered

  on officers

  parachute jump

  reassuring voice of

  reconnecting with Lamoureux, P.

  on Reese.

  Sobel mutiny and

  surrogate uncle

  take prisoners order

  on Talbert, F.

  Toye, Joe, eulogized by

  Woodage, Paul

  Work ethic

  Gordon, W.

  Marsh, R.

  World War II museum

  Wounded

  Blithe, A.

  Gordon, W.

  Guarnere, B.

  Hanson, H.

  Heyliger, F.

  Liebgott, J.

  Lipton, C. C.

  Marsh, R.

  in parachute jumping

  Ranney, M.

  Roe, E.

  Speirs, Ron

  Talbert, F.

  Toye, Joe

  Van Klinken, R.

  Wrenchy, Gariann

  Wright, Dick

  Wright, Red

  Wynn, Robert E.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Marcus Brotherton is a journalist and professional writer known internationally for his literary collaborations with high-profile public figures, humanitarians, inspirational leaders, and military personnel.

  Other military nonfiction books authored or coauthored by Marcus Brotherton are Call of Duty (with Lieutenant Buck Compton), The Nightingale of Mosul (with Colonel Susan Luz), and We Who Are Alive and Remain (with twenty of the still-living Band of Brothers). For more information, please see www.bandofbrothersbooks.com.

  1 http://www.506infantry.org/his2ndbnwwiiphoto24.html, accessed August 2009.

  2 http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/albert-blithe.html, accessed August 2009.

  3 http://www.506infantry.org/his2ndbnwwiiphoto24.html, accessed August 2009.

  4 William Guarnere and Edward Heffron with Robyn Post, Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends (New York: Berkley Caliber, 2007), 79-80.

  5 Richard Winters with Cole Kingseed, Beyond Band of Brothers (New York: Berkley Caliber, 2006), 105, 107.

  6 Ibid., 105.

  7 Ambrose, Band of Brothers, 215.

  8 David Kenyon Webster, Parachute Infantry (New York: Dell Publishing, 1994), 244.

  9 Steven Ambrose, Band of Brothers (New York: Touchstone, 1992), 239.

  10 Band of Brothers, 278.

  11 The nickname for Corporal Forrest Guth, Gutty, or sometimes seen spelled Goodie, is pronounced like duty. He was one of the few paratroopers who carried a camera in Normandy.

  12 Band of Brothers, 285.

  13 Ambrose, Band of Brothers, 150 (note: Ambrose’s book notes eleven prisoners, Winters’s book notes seven, cf. Winters with Kingseed, Beyond Band of Brothers, 143).

  14 Ambrose, Band of Brothers, 170.

  15 Ambrose, Band of Brothers, 293-284

  16 For more information, see the essay about Salty Harris in this book.

  17 Ambrose, Band of Brothers, 112.

  18 Ibid., 149-152.

  19 Ibid., 278.

  20 Winters with Kingseed, Beyond Band of Brothers, 120.

  21 Ambrose, Band of Brothers, 181.

  22 Ambrose, Band of Brothers, 241.

  23 Winters with Kingseed, Beyond Band of Brothers, 278.

  24 Ambrose, Band of Brothers, 297-298.

  25 Winters with Kingseed, Beyond Band of Brothers, 178.

  26 Ibid., 278.

  27 Ibid., 86.

  28 Story is recounted in unpublished Dick Winters eulogy for Joe Toye given September 7, 1995. See text of full speech at http://www.joetoye.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=27, accessed October 2009.

  29 Ambrose, Band of Brothers, 157.

  30 Richard Goldstein, “C. Carwood Lipton, 81, Figure in ‘Band of Brothers,’ Dies,” originally published December 24, 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/24/us/c-carwood-lipton-81-figure-in-band-of-brothers-dies.html, accessed September 2009.

  31 See the essay about Salty Harris.

  32 Ambrose, Band of Brothers, 24.

  33 Winters with Kingseed, Beyond Band of Brothers, 119.

  34 Ibid., 78-79.

  35 Winters with Kingseed, Beyond Band of Brothers, 27.

  36 Ibid., 94.

  37 Ambrose, Band of Brothers, 189.

  38 Ruth Muck O’Hara passed away before this book was researched. Her grandson, John O’Hara, had interviewed her on October 10, 2003, Ruth’s eighty-first birthday. The information from her was gleaned from that recording.

  39 Ambrose, Band of Brothers, 59.

  40 Ibid., 102.

  41 Ibid., 204-205.

  42 The epilogue was written prior to the events of January 12, 2010, when a 7.0 earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince and outlying areas of Haiti. Immediately following this tragedy, Haiti moved to the center of the world’s thoughts and the world’s compassion. My prayer is that we would all continue to help this devastated country.

 

 

 


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