
| Road to the Rhine by Robert Taylor.
As the Allied armies dashed across France after victory in Normandy, they remained reliant on one thing - supplies. With Cherbourg the only port in use, everything depended on trucks to deliver enough fuel, food and ammunition to keep the momentum going. But there was a problem. Too few trucks, and too few drivers. The invasion was in danger of stalling, and if it did, the Germans might just regain the initiative. Action was needed, and quickly. Montgomery argued that all resources be channeled into a single, powerful thrust into Germany, but Eisenhower disagreed. the Allies would advance on a broad front. But he did give Montgomery the First Allied Airborne Army to try and capture the major bridges in Holland on the road to the Rhine, ahead of the Allies advance. For the men of the 101st Airborne, the Screaming Eagles, their task was to seize the bridges at Eindhoven. The 82nd would do the same at Nijmegan, and the British 1st Airborne would capture the farthest bridge, at .........
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| | Item Code : DHM1841 | Road to the Rhine by Robert Taylor. - Editions Available | |
| | DESCRIPTION | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | PRICE | PURCHASING | PACKS | | Limited edition of 450 prints. | Paper size 33.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 61cm) Image size 27 inches x 17.5 inches (69cm x 44cm) | Tipper, Ed | | Sergant Ed Tipper (deceased) |
| Ed Tipper volunteered for the paratroopers and was assigned to Easy Company, 101st Airborne. He made his first jump into Normandy on D-Day. Fighting in Carentan, he was hit by a mortar shell and badly injured. His right eye was damaged, and later removed completely, while both his legs were broken. He was first sent to England then repatriated to the United States. When I came out of the Army I walked with a cane and wore an eye patch. The thing I remember most was the tremendous respons |
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 Maynard, Bill | | Private 1st Class Bill Maynard |
| Born in 1923, Bill Maynard enlisted into the 101st Airborne Division in 1942, completing his training with Easy Company at camp in Toccoa, Georgia. Posted to Europe, Bill completed his combat training prior to D-Day, and jumped with the rest of Easy Company into Normandy on D-Day itself. He was wounded in heavy fighting shortly afterwards, receiving the Purple Heart, but continued to fight on. An experienced marksman with pistol, rifle and machine-gun, he fought with Easy Company throughout N |
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Suerth, Herb | | Corporal Herb Jr Suerth (deceased) |
| 18 year old Herb Suerth enlisted as a volunteer for the Reserve Engineer Corps on 11th November 1942, but after a change of heart in 1944 he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, beginning parachute school training in August that year. After final combat training in Holland, Herb was trucked into Bastogne in December 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge, also fighting in Foy. On 9th January 1945 Herb was wounded by artillery fire and his legs were severely injured but ultimately saved. |
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 + Artist : Robert Taylor | £60 Off! | Now : £210.00 | | In 6 Pairs and 1 Pack View | | 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs | Paper size 33.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 61cm) Image size 27 inches x 17.5 inches (69cm x 44cm) | Shames, Ed | | Colonel Ed Shames (deceased) |
| Enlisting in September 1942, Ed Shames was to become one of the most respected officers in the 101st Airborne Division, a stickler for detail he always got the job done, and brought his men home. Originally assigned to I Company in the 3rd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment he was then transferred to Headquarters Company. He received a battlefield commission during the taking of Carentan in Normandy, and joined Easy Company in July 1944 as a 2nd Lieutenant prior to Operation Ma |
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 True, William | | Sergeant William True (deceased) |
| Bill True served with the 506th Parachute Regiment which was attached to the 101st Airborne. He took part in the initial parachute drop into France with the 101st on D-Day, and by the end of the day they were in control of the high ground overlooking the invasion beach. Bill made his second combat drop with the 101st near Eindhoven during Operation Market Garden, before, in December 1944, finding himself in the thick of the action defending the town of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, |
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 Wingett, Bill | | Private 1st Class Bill Wingett (deceased) |
| Bill Wingett originally enlisted on 9th December 1941, two days after Pearl Harbor was attacked, but after a car crash, hospitalisation and subsequent discharge from the forces meant he had to try again on 19th August 1942. Bill was a machine gunner with Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne up until 5 days before D-Day where he was transferred to Headquarters Company. He fought in the campaigns of Normandy, Holland and Bastogne receiving a Purple Heart in |
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 Soboleski, Frank (companion print) | | First Sergeant Frank Soboleski |
| Joining the Army in 1943, Frank Soboleski parachuted into Holland in September 1944 as part of the 101st Airbornes reserve unit, ready to help if the first two units needed it - they did. Franks unit, Easy Company, was next in combat at Bastogne; surrounded by Germans in the freezing cold for a month. The company then moved on to Haguenau in France, and finally to Berchtesgaden in southern Germany when the war ended. Frank remained in southern Germany and Austria for another six months and wa |
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Taylor, Amos Buck (companion print) | | Sergeant Amos Buck Taylor (deceased) |
| Having worked in a factory making Sherman Tanks, Buck aided the war effort even further by becoming a Paratrooper and enlisted in July 1942 before being assigned to 3rd Platoon upon his arrival at Toccoa. When jumping into Europe on D-Day he was 2nd Squad Leader but having scattered on the jump, it was not until several days later that he joined up with the rest of the company, just prior to the attack on Carentan during which he was made 3rd Platoon Sergeant. At the Battle of the Bulge, when ad |
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 Rogers, Paul (companion print) | | Sergeant Paul Rogers (deceased) |
| Aged 24, Paul Rogers volunteered to be a Paratrooper in 1942 and soon found himself at Toccoa training under Colonel Sink. When jumping into Europe on D-Day, Paul lost most of his equipment, including his rifle, and his parachute snagged on trees from which he had to cut himself loose; he later found out he had landed eight miles from the intended drop zone. With the 3rd Battalion he fought throughout Normandy but was injured when jumping into Holland as part of Operation Market Garden and subse |
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 Joint, Ed | | 101st airborne division, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. We were sent out to take a machine gun position. It was just before the battle of Foy ended. I was running up a hill and got hit by shrapnel in my right arm. I went flying up in the air, I didn't know at first what hit me. Somebody hollered for a medic. They put me on a stretcher and took me to a field hospital. They couldn't do nothing with it there, so they took me back and put me in a hospital in Paris. A medic |
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Tipper, Ed | | Sergant Ed Tipper (deceased) |
| Ed Tipper volunteered for the paratroopers and was assigned to Easy Company, 101st Airborne. He made his first jump into Normandy on D-Day. Fighting in Carentan, he was hit by a mortar shell and badly injured. His right eye was damaged, and later removed completely, while both his legs were broken. He was first sent to England then repatriated to the United States. When I came out of the Army I walked with a cane and wore an eye patch. The thing I remember most was the tremendous respons |
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 Zimmermann, Hank (companion print) | | 2nd Battalion, E Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. |
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Koskimaki, George Hallow, Ed | | Operations Sergeant Ed Hallow |
| A Company, 101st Airborne |
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Burgett, Don | | A Company, 101st Airborne.Donald 'Don' R. Burgett was born on April 5, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan. On his 18th birthday, on April 5th, 1943 Donald joined the paratroopers enlisting in Detroit, Michigan. They sent Donald Burgett to Fort Riley, Kansas in order to join the last Unit of the Horse Cavalry still running. He thus did his basic training with the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Horse Cavalry. When he ended his basic training, he was transferred to the Army Paratroops at Fort Benning |
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Bain, Rod (companion print) | | E Comapny, 506th Parchute Infantry Regiment. |
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Peruginni, Phil | | E Company, 101st Airborne |
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McClung, Earl (companion print) | | E Company, 101st Airborne. Kaprun, Austria - I thought I had died and gone to heaven there. My job was to hunt and feed the prisoners that the Germans had taken for slave labor who were incarcerated there. The prisoners were freed by then but they had no place to go. I think they were Polish and Romanian mostly. The job fell to us to feed them. I fed them stag and chamois (goats with little hooked horns) until they were coming out of the ears. So I finally got to do some hunting like I enjoyed |
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Martin, James (companion print) | | G Company, 101st Airborne |
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Vicari, Vinnie (companion print) | | D Company, 101st Airborne |
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Lyall, Clancy (companion print) | | E Company, 101st Airborne. Clarence 'Clancy' Lyall was born on 14th October 1925 in Orange, Texas. In 1939 Lyall moved to Pennsylvania and joined the Army in 1942. Lyall went to Florida in 1943 for basic training and in April 1943 went to Airborne School, and this was followed with further training in Communications and Demolition. In May 1944 Lyall joined the 2nd Battalion 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. During Operation Overlord, Lyall landed in a tree 2 |
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Perconte, Frank (companion print) | | Frank Perconte was born on March 10th, 1917 in Indiana. His family came from Sicily and settled in the US. Frank Perconte grew up in a typical US-Italian neighborhood and started work at the Gary Steel Mill before being recruited to become a paratrooper At the age of 26 Frank Perconte joined the army and was in Easy Company of the 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Frank went to Toccoa for training before heading overseas to Britain. On June 6th, D-Day 1944 Frank jumped into Normand |
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Maynard, Bill | | Private 1st Class Bill Maynard |
| Born in 1923, Bill Maynard enlisted into the 101st Airborne Division in 1942, completing his training with Easy Company at camp in Toccoa, Georgia. Posted to Europe, Bill completed his combat training prior to D-Day, and jumped with the rest of Easy Company into Normandy on D-Day itself. He was wounded in heavy fighting shortly afterwards, receiving the Purple Heart, but continued to fight on. An experienced marksman with pistol, rifle and machine-gun, he fought with Easy Company throughout N |
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Suerth, Herb | | Corporal Herb Jr Suerth (deceased) |
| 18 year old Herb Suerth enlisted as a volunteer for the Reserve Engineer Corps on 11th November 1942, but after a change of heart in 1944 he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, beginning parachute school training in August that year. After final combat training in Holland, Herb was trucked into Bastogne in December 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge, also fighting in Foy. On 9th January 1945 Herb was wounded by artillery fire and his legs were severely injured but ultimately saved. |
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 + Artist : Robert Taylor | | SOLD OUT | NOT AVAILABLE | | Collectors edition of 350 prints Great value : Value of signatures exceeds price of item! | Paper size 33.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 61cm) Image size 27 inches x 17.5 inches (69cm x 44cm) | Shames, Ed | | Colonel Ed Shames (deceased) |
| Enlisting in September 1942, Ed Shames was to become one of the most respected officers in the 101st Airborne Division, a stickler for detail he always got the job done, and brought his men home. Originally assigned to I Company in the 3rd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment he was then transferred to Headquarters Company. He received a battlefield commission during the taking of Carentan in Normandy, and joined Easy Company in July 1944 as a 2nd Lieutenant prior to Operation Ma |
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 True, William | | Sergeant William True (deceased) |
| Bill True served with the 506th Parachute Regiment which was attached to the 101st Airborne. He took part in the initial parachute drop into France with the 101st on D-Day, and by the end of the day they were in control of the high ground overlooking the invasion beach. Bill made his second combat drop with the 101st near Eindhoven during Operation Market Garden, before, in December 1944, finding himself in the thick of the action defending the town of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, |
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 Wingett, Bill | | Private 1st Class Bill Wingett (deceased) |
| Bill Wingett originally enlisted on 9th December 1941, two days after Pearl Harbor was attacked, but after a car crash, hospitalisation and subsequent discharge from the forces meant he had to try again on 19th August 1942. Bill was a machine gunner with Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne up until 5 days before D-Day where he was transferred to Headquarters Company. He fought in the campaigns of Normandy, Holland and Bastogne receiving a Purple Heart in |
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 Joint, Ed | | 101st airborne division, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. We were sent out to take a machine gun position. It was just before the battle of Foy ended. I was running up a hill and got hit by shrapnel in my right arm. I went flying up in the air, I didn't know at first what hit me. Somebody hollered for a medic. They put me on a stretcher and took me to a field hospital. They couldn't do nothing with it there, so they took me back and put me in a hospital in Paris. A medic |
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Tipper, Ed | | Sergant Ed Tipper (deceased) |
| Ed Tipper volunteered for the paratroopers and was assigned to Easy Company, 101st Airborne. He made his first jump into Normandy on D-Day. Fighting in Carentan, he was hit by a mortar shell and badly injured. His right eye was damaged, and later removed completely, while both his legs were broken. He was first sent to England then repatriated to the United States. When I came out of the Army I walked with a cane and wore an eye patch. The thing I remember most was the tremendous respons |
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 Koskimaki, George Hallow, Ed | | Operations Sergeant Ed Hallow |
| A Company, 101st Airborne |
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Burgett, Don | | A Company, 101st Airborne.Donald 'Don' R. Burgett was born on April 5, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan. On his 18th birthday, on April 5th, 1943 Donald joined the paratroopers enlisting in Detroit, Michigan. They sent Donald Burgett to Fort Riley, Kansas in order to join the last Unit of the Horse Cavalry still running. He thus did his basic training with the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Horse Cavalry. When he ended his basic training, he was transferred to the Army Paratroops at Fort Benning |
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Maynard, Bill | | Private 1st Class Bill Maynard |
| Born in 1923, Bill Maynard enlisted into the 101st Airborne Division in 1942, completing his training with Easy Company at camp in Toccoa, Georgia. Posted to Europe, Bill completed his combat training prior to D-Day, and jumped with the rest of Easy Company into Normandy on D-Day itself. He was wounded in heavy fighting shortly afterwards, receiving the Purple Heart, but continued to fight on. An experienced marksman with pistol, rifle and machine-gun, he fought with Easy Company throughout N |
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Suerth, Herb | | Corporal Herb Jr Suerth (deceased) |
| 18 year old Herb Suerth enlisted as a volunteer for the Reserve Engineer Corps on 11th November 1942, but after a change of heart in 1944 he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, beginning parachute school training in August that year. After final combat training in Holland, Herb was trucked into Bastogne in December 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge, also fighting in Foy. On 9th January 1945 Herb was wounded by artillery fire and his legs were severely injured but ultimately saved. |
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 + Artist : Robert Taylor | £60 Off! | Now : £265.00 | | | | 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints | Paper size 33.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 61cm) Image size 27 inches x 17.5 inches (69cm x 44cm) | Shames, Ed | | Colonel Ed Shames (deceased) |
| Enlisting in September 1942, Ed Shames was to become one of the most respected officers in the 101st Airborne Division, a stickler for detail he always got the job done, and brought his men home. Originally assigned to I Company in the 3rd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment he was then transferred to Headquarters Company. He received a battlefield commission during the taking of Carentan in Normandy, and joined Easy Company in July 1944 as a 2nd Lieutenant prior to Operation Ma |
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 True, William | | Sergeant William True (deceased) |
| Bill True served with the 506th Parachute Regiment which was attached to the 101st Airborne. He took part in the initial parachute drop into France with the 101st on D-Day, and by the end of the day they were in control of the high ground overlooking the invasion beach. Bill made his second combat drop with the 101st near Eindhoven during Operation Market Garden, before, in December 1944, finding himself in the thick of the action defending the town of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, |
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 Wingett, Bill | | Private 1st Class Bill Wingett (deceased) |
| Bill Wingett originally enlisted on 9th December 1941, two days after Pearl Harbor was attacked, but after a car crash, hospitalisation and subsequent discharge from the forces meant he had to try again on 19th August 1942. Bill was a machine gunner with Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne up until 5 days before D-Day where he was transferred to Headquarters Company. He fought in the campaigns of Normandy, Holland and Bastogne receiving a Purple Heart in |
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 Soboleski, Frank (companion print) | | First Sergeant Frank Soboleski |
| Joining the Army in 1943, Frank Soboleski parachuted into Holland in September 1944 as part of the 101st Airbornes reserve unit, ready to help if the first two units needed it - they did. Franks unit, Easy Company, was next in combat at Bastogne; surrounded by Germans in the freezing cold for a month. The company then moved on to Haguenau in France, and finally to Berchtesgaden in southern Germany when the war ended. Frank remained in southern Germany and Austria for another six months and wa |
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Taylor, Amos Buck (companion print) | | Sergeant Amos Buck Taylor (deceased) |
| Having worked in a factory making Sherman Tanks, Buck aided the war effort even further by becoming a Paratrooper and enlisted in July 1942 before being assigned to 3rd Platoon upon his arrival at Toccoa. When jumping into Europe on D-Day he was 2nd Squad Leader but having scattered on the jump, it was not until several days later that he joined up with the rest of the company, just prior to the attack on Carentan during which he was made 3rd Platoon Sergeant. At the Battle of the Bulge, when ad |
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 Rogers, Paul (companion print) | | Sergeant Paul Rogers (deceased) |
| Aged 24, Paul Rogers volunteered to be a Paratrooper in 1942 and soon found himself at Toccoa training under Colonel Sink. When jumping into Europe on D-Day, Paul lost most of his equipment, including his rifle, and his parachute snagged on trees from which he had to cut himself loose; he later found out he had landed eight miles from the intended drop zone. With the 3rd Battalion he fought throughout Normandy but was injured when jumping into Holland as part of Operation Market Garden and subse |
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 Joint, Ed | | 101st airborne division, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. We were sent out to take a machine gun position. It was just before the battle of Foy ended. I was running up a hill and got hit by shrapnel in my right arm. I went flying up in the air, I didn't know at first what hit me. Somebody hollered for a medic. They put me on a stretcher and took me to a field hospital. They couldn't do nothing with it there, so they took me back and put me in a hospital in Paris. A medic |
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Tipper, Ed | | Sergant Ed Tipper (deceased) |
| Ed Tipper volunteered for the paratroopers and was assigned to Easy Company, 101st Airborne. He made his first jump into Normandy on D-Day. Fighting in Carentan, he was hit by a mortar shell and badly injured. His right eye was damaged, and later removed completely, while both his legs were broken. He was first sent to England then repatriated to the United States. When I came out of the Army I walked with a cane and wore an eye patch. The thing I remember most was the tremendous respons |
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 Zimmermann, Hank (companion print) | | 2nd Battalion, E Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. |
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Koskimaki, George Hallow, Ed | | Operations Sergeant Ed Hallow |
| A Company, 101st Airborne |
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Burgett, Don | | A Company, 101st Airborne.Donald 'Don' R. Burgett was born on April 5, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan. On his 18th birthday, on April 5th, 1943 Donald joined the paratroopers enlisting in Detroit, Michigan. They sent Donald Burgett to Fort Riley, Kansas in order to join the last Unit of the Horse Cavalry still running. He thus did his basic training with the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Horse Cavalry. When he ended his basic training, he was transferred to the Army Paratroops at Fort Benning |
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Bain, Rod (companion print) | | E Comapny, 506th Parchute Infantry Regiment. |
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Peruginni, Phil | | E Company, 101st Airborne |
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McClung, Earl (companion print) | | E Company, 101st Airborne. Kaprun, Austria - I thought I had died and gone to heaven there. My job was to hunt and feed the prisoners that the Germans had taken for slave labor who were incarcerated there. The prisoners were freed by then but they had no place to go. I think they were Polish and Romanian mostly. The job fell to us to feed them. I fed them stag and chamois (goats with little hooked horns) until they were coming out of the ears. So I finally got to do some hunting like I enjoyed |
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Martin, James (companion print) | | G Company, 101st Airborne |
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Vicari, Vinnie (companion print) | | D Company, 101st Airborne |
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Lyall, Clancy (companion print) | | E Company, 101st Airborne. Clarence 'Clancy' Lyall was born on 14th October 1925 in Orange, Texas. In 1939 Lyall moved to Pennsylvania and joined the Army in 1942. Lyall went to Florida in 1943 for basic training and in April 1943 went to Airborne School, and this was followed with further training in Communications and Demolition. In May 1944 Lyall joined the 2nd Battalion 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. During Operation Overlord, Lyall landed in a tree 2 |
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Perconte, Frank (companion print) | | Frank Perconte was born on March 10th, 1917 in Indiana. His family came from Sicily and settled in the US. Frank Perconte grew up in a typical US-Italian neighborhood and started work at the Gary Steel Mill before being recruited to become a paratrooper At the age of 26 Frank Perconte joined the army and was in Easy Company of the 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Frank went to Toccoa for training before heading overseas to Britain. On June 6th, D-Day 1944 Frank jumped into Normand |
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Maynard, Bill | | Private 1st Class Bill Maynard |
| Born in 1923, Bill Maynard enlisted into the 101st Airborne Division in 1942, completing his training with Easy Company at camp in Toccoa, Georgia. Posted to Europe, Bill completed his combat training prior to D-Day, and jumped with the rest of Easy Company into Normandy on D-Day itself. He was wounded in heavy fighting shortly afterwards, receiving the Purple Heart, but continued to fight on. An experienced marksman with pistol, rifle and machine-gun, he fought with Easy Company throughout N |
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Suerth, Herb | | Corporal Herb Jr Suerth (deceased) |
| 18 year old Herb Suerth enlisted as a volunteer for the Reserve Engineer Corps on 11th November 1942, but after a change of heart in 1944 he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, beginning parachute school training in August that year. After final combat training in Holland, Herb was trucked into Bastogne in December 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge, also fighting in Foy. On 9th January 1945 Herb was wounded by artillery fire and his legs were severely injured but ultimately saved. |
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 + Artist : Robert Taylor | | SOLD OUT | NOT AVAILABLE | | | Collectors remarque edition of 10 prints | Paper size 33.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 61cm) Image size 27 inches x 17.5 inches (69cm x 44cm) | Shames, Ed | | Colonel Ed Shames (deceased) |
| Enlisting in September 1942, Ed Shames was to become one of the most respected officers in the 101st Airborne Division, a stickler for detail he always got the job done, and brought his men home. Originally assigned to I Company in the 3rd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment he was then transferred to Headquarters Company. He received a battlefield commission during the taking of Carentan in Normandy, and joined Easy Company in July 1944 as a 2nd Lieutenant prior to Operation Ma |
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 True, William | | Sergeant William True (deceased) |
| Bill True served with the 506th Parachute Regiment which was attached to the 101st Airborne. He took part in the initial parachute drop into France with the 101st on D-Day, and by the end of the day they were in control of the high ground overlooking the invasion beach. Bill made his second combat drop with the 101st near Eindhoven during Operation Market Garden, before, in December 1944, finding himself in the thick of the action defending the town of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, |
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 Wingett, Bill | | Private 1st Class Bill Wingett (deceased) |
| Bill Wingett originally enlisted on 9th December 1941, two days after Pearl Harbor was attacked, but after a car crash, hospitalisation and subsequent discharge from the forces meant he had to try again on 19th August 1942. Bill was a machine gunner with Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne up until 5 days before D-Day where he was transferred to Headquarters Company. He fought in the campaigns of Normandy, Holland and Bastogne receiving a Purple Heart in |
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 Joint, Ed | | 101st airborne division, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. We were sent out to take a machine gun position. It was just before the battle of Foy ended. I was running up a hill and got hit by shrapnel in my right arm. I went flying up in the air, I didn't know at first what hit me. Somebody hollered for a medic. They put me on a stretcher and took me to a field hospital. They couldn't do nothing with it there, so they took me back and put me in a hospital in Paris. A medic |
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Tipper, Ed | | Sergant Ed Tipper (deceased) |
| Ed Tipper volunteered for the paratroopers and was assigned to Easy Company, 101st Airborne. He made his first jump into Normandy on D-Day. Fighting in Carentan, he was hit by a mortar shell and badly injured. His right eye was damaged, and later removed completely, while both his legs were broken. He was first sent to England then repatriated to the United States. When I came out of the Army I walked with a cane and wore an eye patch. The thing I remember most was the tremendous respons |
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 Koskimaki, George Hallow, Ed | | Operations Sergeant Ed Hallow |
| A Company, 101st Airborne |
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Burgett, Don | | A Company, 101st Airborne.Donald 'Don' R. Burgett was born on April 5, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan. On his 18th birthday, on April 5th, 1943 Donald joined the paratroopers enlisting in Detroit, Michigan. They sent Donald Burgett to Fort Riley, Kansas in order to join the last Unit of the Horse Cavalry still running. He thus did his basic training with the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Horse Cavalry. When he ended his basic training, he was transferred to the Army Paratroops at Fort Benning |
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Peruginni, Phil | | E Company, 101st Airborne |
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Maynard, Bill | | Private 1st Class Bill Maynard |
| Born in 1923, Bill Maynard enlisted into the 101st Airborne Division in 1942, completing his training with Easy Company at camp in Toccoa, Georgia. Posted to Europe, Bill completed his combat training prior to D-Day, and jumped with the rest of Easy Company into Normandy on D-Day itself. He was wounded in heavy fighting shortly afterwards, receiving the Purple Heart, but continued to fight on. An experienced marksman with pistol, rifle and machine-gun, he fought with Easy Company throughout N |
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Suerth, Herb | | Corporal Herb Jr Suerth (deceased) |
| 18 year old Herb Suerth enlisted as a volunteer for the Reserve Engineer Corps on 11th November 1942, but after a change of heart in 1944 he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, beginning parachute school training in August that year. After final combat training in Holland, Herb was trucked into Bastogne in December 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge, also fighting in Foy. On 9th January 1945 Herb was wounded by artillery fire and his legs were severely injured but ultimately saved. |
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 + Artist : Robert Taylor | | SOLD OUT | NOT AVAILABLE | |
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