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D-Day Survivor: An Autobiography
"There was no way to anticipate the horrors of the holocaust thatawaited us on the Dog Green Sector." --Dr. Harold Baumgarten
It was the bravery and heroism of the 116th Infantry that began one of the longest days of combat in American war history. In the face of heavy fire and despite suffering the loss of eight hundred men and officers, the 116th Infantry overcame beach o ...more
It was the bravery and heroism of the 116th Infantry that began one of the longest days of combat in American war history. In the face of heavy fire and despite suffering the loss of eight hundred men and officers, the 116th Infantry overcame beach o ...more
Hardcover
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256 pages
Published
October 31st 2006
by Pelican Publishing Company
(first published October 1st 2006)
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I only thought I had a full appreciation of what THE GREATEST GENERATION did to secure freedom for later generations. This autobiographical over-the-shoulder look at what it was like to storm the beach amidst the most brutal fighting in the most heavily defended sector of by far the toughest of the five D-Day beaches, i.e., Omaha Beach, opened my eyes as never before to what it was like. My admiration for THE GREATEST GENERATION was magnified tenfold and more after reading what Hal Baumgarten ex
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The beginning was good and filled with action but his life after the war was boring at parts but he did a good job of telling us what his life before during and after the war was like.
Quite a book. A medical officer recalls D-Day and the many times he had every reason to believe it would be the last day of his life.
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