Leonard Lebenson

Surrounded by Heroes (eBook, ePUB)

Six Campaigns with Divisional Headquarters, 82d Airborne, 1942 - 1945

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This WWII memoir offers a rare behind-the-scenes view of the 82nd Airborne and its heroic contributions to Allied victory in Europe and Africa. Joining the army in 1942, Leonard Lebenson was recruited into the 82nd Airborne for his skills as a typist and draftsman. Lebenson thus gained a ringside seat for some of the greatest campaigns of World War II-from the invasions of North Africa, Sicily, and France, to the Netherlands, the Bulge, and the drive on Berlin. Throughout the campaigns, Lebenson was at the division's nerve center, typing orders, drafting battle maps, and acting as liaison. A rare enlisted man with top-secret status, he was in the room with Gen. Patton, Field Marshal Montgomery, "Jumpin' Jim" Gavin, and other luminaries who came through headquarters. But Lebenson also saw battle up close-by ship, plane, glider, parachute, and Jeep. With the rest of the All American Division, he was on the ground in Africa and the Ardennes, facing ever-present enemy fire. Rising from private to master sergeant, Lebenson thought that he had "the best job in the army." In this revealing memoir, however, he never fails to give full credit to the men on the firing line who suffered the greatest hardships and casualties.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Casemate
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781935149729
• Artikelnr.: 39502326

Autorenporträt

Len Lebenson, born in NY City, now resides there once again with his wife Alice in Greenwich Village. A child of the Depression, he acquired his first great possession, a used Chevrolet, in 1940. At about that time het met Alice, the love of his life, whom he married just before induction into the Army in 1942. Post-war, after a series of jobs, Len found a niche as a designer of printing presses and from that segued into selling them, which he did as an executive for several companies for the major part of his successful career. The couple currently have three children and two grandchildren.