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 assault the German defenses at Normandy. Surviving the invasion, the fighting in the lethal hedgerow country, the Hurtgen Forest, and the Battle of the Bulge, he was later assigned to gather information on the Nazi atrocities performed at the concentration camps for the trials at Nuremburg. Beginning with…mehr
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 assault the German defenses at Normandy. Surviving the invasion, the fighting in the lethal hedgerow country, the Hurtgen Forest, and the Battle of the Bulge, he was later assigned to gather information on the Nazi atrocities performed at the concentration camps 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.
The late Sgt. Daniel Altman grew up in the Bronx, New York. He enlisted in the Army at 21 and served in the ETO. When he came state-side he integrated back into civilian life and repressed his memories of the war. He lived in Verona, New Jersey.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments by Fawn Zwickel Preface by Fawn Zwickel 1-Hell 2-Lucky Foot 3-Starving and Battered 4-Surviving Normandy 5-Face to Face with the Siegfried Line 6-Woodland Splinters 7-Snow, Blood, Bodies and Shit 8-My Private Battle of the Bulge 9-War's Over-Off to the Next Assignment 10-Camp Ashcan 11-Transporting Guilty Cargo 12-Haunted Forever 13-Camp #219, Dachau 14-Buchenwald 15-Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz 16-Standing Guard at Nuremberg 17-Homesick 18-The Final Ride Home 19-Trouble Over the Atlantic Basin 20-Killing Time to Stay Alive 21-Fixing the Propeller 22-An Empty Welcome Home 23-A Changed Man at the VA 24-Compartmentalizing A Last Word Author's Military Service References Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments by Fawn Zwickel Preface by Fawn Zwickel 1-Hell 2-Lucky Foot 3-Starving and Battered 4-Surviving Normandy 5-Face to Face with the Siegfried Line 6-Woodland Splinters 7-Snow, Blood, Bodies and Shit 8-My Private Battle of the Bulge 9-War's Over-Off to the Next Assignment 10-Camp Ashcan 11-Transporting Guilty Cargo 12-Haunted Forever 13-Camp #219, Dachau 14-Buchenwald 15-Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz 16-Standing Guard at Nuremberg 17-Homesick 18-The Final Ride Home 19-Trouble Over the Atlantic Basin 20-Killing Time to Stay Alive 21-Fixing the Propeller 22-An Empty Welcome Home 23-A Changed Man at the VA 24-Compartmentalizing A Last Word Author's Military Service References Index
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