Omaha Beach and Beyond: The Long March of Sergeant Bob Slaughter
Book Details
Author(s)
John Robert Slaughter
Publisher
Zenith Press
ISBN / ASIN
0760337349
ISBN-13
9780760337349
Availability
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Sales Rank
#1,093,932
Category
History
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
"Slaughter vividly conveys the reality of combat during World War II in his book with sweeping passages that literally place his reader on the battlefield beside him." Belvoir Eagle
Before D-Day, regular army soldiers called the National Guardsmen of Virginia's 116th Infantry Regiment "Home Nannies" and "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 life of GI Joe from pre-Pearl Harbor days through training, deployment overseas, and more training. 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 and the Bedford Boys.
