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Fighting with the Filthy Thirteen - The World War II Memoirs of Jack Womer-Ranger and Paratrooper (Hardcover)
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Fighting with the Filthy Thirteen - The World War II Memoirs of Jack Womer-Ranger and Paratrooper (Hardcover)
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In 2004 the world was first introduced to The Filthy Thirteen, a
book describing the most notorious squad of fighting men in the
101st Airborne Division who were the inspiration for the movie The
Dirty Dozen. This is the long awaited work of Jack Womer, one of
the squad's integral members, and probably its best soldier. Womer
was originally a member of the 29th Infantry Division and selected
to be part of its elite Ranger battalion until, after a year of
gruelling training under the eyes of British Commando instructors,
they were suddenly dissolved. Bitterly disappointed, Womer asked
for transfer to another elite unit, the Screaming Eagles, where
room was found for him among the division's most miscreant squad of
brawlers, drunkards and goof-offs. Beginning on June 6, 1944,
however, the Filthy Thirteen began proving themselves more a menace
to the German Army than they had been to their own officers and the
good people of England, embarking on a year of ferocious combat at
the very tip of the Allied advance in Europe. In this work, with
the help of Steven DeVito, Womer provides an amazingly frank look
at close-quarters combat in Europe, as well as the almost surreal
experience of dust-bowl-era GI's entering country after country in
their grapple with the Wehrmacht, finally ending up in Hitler's
mountaintop lair in Germany itself. Throughout his fights, Jack
Womer credited his Ranger/Commando training for helping him to
survive, even though most of the rest of the Filthy Thirteen did
not. And in the end he found the reward he had most coveted all
along; being able to return to his fiancee Theresa back in the
States.
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