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Before D-Day, regular army soldiers called the National Guardsmen
of Virginia's 116th Infantry Regiment 'Home Nannies', 'Weekend
Warriors', and worse. On June 6, 1944, on Omaha Beach, however,
these proud Virginians who carried the legacy of the famed
Stonewall Brigade showed the regular army and the world what true
valor really was. In this moving World War II memoir, the author
captures the day-to-day comings and goings of GI Joe from pre-World
War II National Guard days through induction, training, and
deployment overseas. All leads up to D-Day and Normandy on June 6,
1944, when Sergeant Bob Slaughter came across Omaha Beach with
Company D of the 116th Infantry. This was the beginning of his long
march to final victory in Europe, a march that would take him and
his fellow soldiers of Company D, at least those who survived, to
Holland, the Bulge, and on into Germany itself - a fascinating,
detailed look at the life and times of an ordinary soldier in the
battlefield of Europe.
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