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digitaldog
Grove, OK
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A " heads up " for those interested
in military ( Viet Nam era ) history..
Below is the cover of my Buddie's new book -- 
approximate first printing scheduled for late 2014
The synopsis is from our unit historian:
( Jerry Berry whom I "hung with", served with,
and have remained pals to this day ):
The book " They Called Us Currahees " will be the bastardization of both an autobiography and a memoir. The beginning and last section of the book will be an autobiography focusing on the chronology of me, the writer's life up to being assigned to the 3-506th and conclude with post military service forward (in first person perspective). the heart of the book will be a memoir covering the Vietnam Odyssey of the 3-506th (and TF 3-506th) up to the time the battalion stood down in May 1971 (in third person perspective). The memoir section will include many names, events and recollections. I have included lots of photos to help tell our stories.
( signed ) J.B.
Please be advised that your lovable ole Digital Dog is mentioned frequently and honorably with numerous photos ( of MEeee ! ) throughout the book..!
Should a movie be made about us...
I am hoping that either Tom Cruise or Matt Damon
will play the part of me as they are the closest
to being as handsome as I am..!! -
The book will be available at Amazon.com.
 
 -XoXoXoX-
And ALL my friends....
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| 11/12/2013 7:18:10 AM |
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whiskeyrichard1
Burlington, KY
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Outstanding Currahee!
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| 11/12/2013 10:32:08 AM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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| 11/12/2013 10:50:11 AM |
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autumnsmile
Counce, TN
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Id like to read that book.
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| 11/12/2013 10:53:23 AM |
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nick269
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| 11/12/2013 11:14:24 AM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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Id like to read that book.
 AS ..... one doesn't read a military history --- one studies a military history
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| 11/12/2013 11:59:33 AM |
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autumnsmile
Counce, TN
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Well,Id like to study then.I wanna know what my father and his commerads endured.I wanna know all the things he never has spoke about so maybe I can understand what he's going through now.Maybe Digital Dog or his friend wern't pows,but Dad didn't do three tours in a camp.Daddy has spoken about drinking agent orange from the rice patties and it being throughout the food chain and environment over there before....well,when he was explaining why they had to take out his voicebox and all a few years back.The only way I knew what a foot trap was was when I had stepped on one in Dad's yard before Daddy got this bad.He had fox holes and everything in his yard.We were all terrified Dad would kill us.I still have the crossbar mounted on my back door!That's how scared we were and real Daddy's halucinations were before the anethstesia from the heart surgery damaged his brain and made him like this.Those men went through HELL and I need to understand so I can get some peace n quit disecting and going over the progression of this whole thing instead of guessing.
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| 11/12/2013 12:48:25 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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I commiserate with you, AS.
But a couple of questions, if you please.
How old is your dad?
How old was your dad when he entered military service?
Where was your dad stationed in VietNam?
How many years did your dad serve in the military?
In order for you to more fully understand the various complexities of the VietNam conflict have you visited with any of America's VietNam veterans (friends, family, local posts, etc.) and queried them on their personal service accounts during the same time frame when your dad served (and preferably in the same general locale)?
These proud American vets, when one is willing to discuss the VietNam conflict, are filled with valuable learning 'stories' of that era --- given that the inquiring party permit them the courtesy of weeding out their "war story" epics and massive amounts of BS.
Most of these self-same vets remain alert and totally cognizant of their experience(s) and emotional state during the VietNam conflict.
As for your 'personal drive' to get inside your dad's head so that you can understand -- you may be asking the impossible. Your dad's reasoning is "his" -- no one else's.
Most times, AS, in situations such as you describe, it is best to let go and let God.
I do hope that are able to resolve some of what you are feeling today and can look to your future --- not your dad's past.
It is my fervent hope that Digi (and his writer friend) can be of assistance to you in your quest -- point you in the direction you may need to travel -- and support you when you are feeling as though you have run into brick walls. Digi is a very informed poster on military matters; his assistance may be invaluable to you.
Good luck
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| 11/12/2013 1:34:26 PM |
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autumnsmile
Counce, TN
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Thanks Cheer,I think a lot of what you said was very helpful....Dad is 71.There's a great deal I don't know as you know I only found my Dad 6 almost 7 years ago.Im pretty certain I can and will find out the answers to your questions since I do have all of this notorized and court ordered paperwork that seems to be written in almost a forien language but basically says I have all rights and responsibilities...getting inside Dad's head might not be a healthy place for me at this time,I think maybe you are right in that,but Id sure like to be able to do something to help him aside from looking at the nurses like a lost,confused and frightend child.I need some power over some of this.I feel like Im fighting a forrest fire with a watering can.As for the commissery,please don't stay there long this is me sorting through this,trying to find my own coping mechanism.Just venting does help.Putting it somewhere where someone may have some viable insights or suggestions is also helpful.Of course coping does come much easier when one isn't two weeks late for her hormone shots with no transportation to get to the doc to get them until the van gets fixed...You know it is amazing how many people love you to death and think so highly of you when you are doing for them but don't dare ask for help...even if you're willing to pay for it, when you are down.That aggivates me as, well,you've no way of knowing how much Ive done for how many local people and never asked a thing in return.Im talking going way above and beyond.Girl, I have a stockpile of good karma stored up.Thus far the only reward is that I feel good that I am that kind of person,but who knows,maybe God foresee's something I don't and a time may come in the future where I'll need that stored Karma more than now.
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| 11/12/2013 2:13:38 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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 .... now that's some funny stuff, AS .... Glad to see you haven't lost your sense of humor during your trials and tribulations with your dad.
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| 11/14/2013 3:50:38 PM |
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autumnsmile
Counce, TN
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Im glad you found humor in it.I wasn't feeling any when I typed that.Much better today though.Im going to have to force myself to learn to not empathize so much.Really,it is very counter productive and doesn't help anyone.
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| 11/14/2013 6:02:45 PM |
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whiskeyrichard1
Burlington, KY
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It would help here if some of you knew more about the Currahee tribe and the Currahee Mountains in Georgia! Currahee means in that native tongue "Stands alone"..that's a statement of warrior pride and unwillingness to bend or surrender....educate yourself!
I was in the 501st/101st . We were known as Geronimo's Battalion...never retreat-never surrender ...all this stuff has historic meaning. And men (and women) die for it!
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| 11/14/2013 8:42:20 PM |
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bronze77
Mukilteo, WA
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Many stories have been written about the B-52 combat missions flown in Vietnam. There's also many books on the B-52 aircraft. On the other hand, there have been very few things written about the day-to-day training, peacetime missions, and everyday life of a B-52 Crewdog during the Cold War era or recent wars.
When the Strategic Air Command ended its Nuclear Alert readiness in 1991, many of us were already out of the B-52 and retired from the service. Now it seems even longer in the past, and not only do aircrews on Nuclear Alert no longer exist, neither does the Strategic Air Command, the command in which many of us spent the majority of our military service.
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| 11/14/2013 10:32:04 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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I sure hope Digi reminds us when the book is published and available for purchase on Amazon.com. I would enjoy studying this military history of the Currahee.
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| 11/15/2013 9:07:48 AM |
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newlady2
Goldsboro, NC
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They may be gone but always in our thoughts ----- warriors as well as B52s.. 
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| 11/15/2013 10:13:19 AM |
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cupocheer
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| 11/17/2013 2:10:03 PM |
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eastfoot
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| 12/11/2013 9:58:32 AM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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Digi? ~~ Any word, yet, on the publication release?
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| 12/22/2013 10:58:18 AM |
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eastfoot
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| 12/23/2013 3:12:49 PM |
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newlady2
Goldsboro, NC
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*smile* Just so darn cute ..
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| 12/24/2013 5:32:56 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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Merry Christmas, OP -- and all who pass here.
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| 1/26/2014 8:03:30 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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Hey Digi ~~ Heard anything about a release date on this book, yet?
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| 1/31/2014 8:17:48 PM |
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newlady2
Goldsboro, NC
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Laffin and just thinking ..
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| 2/5/2014 4:12:34 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllllllllllllllllll???????????????????????????
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| 2/11/2014 9:24:24 AM |
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1irving
Ruskin, FL
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Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllllllllllllllllll???????????????????????????
How does one post in the "Independent" group? cannot contact you directly, so I'm trying here.
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| 2/11/2014 9:49:17 AM |
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bier95
Clara City, MN
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Irving you would have to edit your profile under Politics: to read independent
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| 2/11/2014 12:18:00 PM |
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1irving
Ruskin, FL
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It is listed that way. oh well. Thanks
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bier95
Clara City, MN
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irving the other way is in politics put didn't say then te thread will show
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| 2/17/2014 6:26:32 PM |
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eastfoot
Bossier City, LA
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"Currahee"... onclicktv.eu/tvshow/band_of_brothers/s1/e1
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| 3/16/2014 12:59:57 PM |
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eastfoot
Bossier City, LA
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(?)...the 23rd of June!
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| 3/17/2014 3:05:58 PM |
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whiskeyrichard1
Burlington, KY
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For those of you who don't know...Currahees are a unit of the 101st, but also mountains in Georgia,and a small, fierce native American tribe!
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eastfoot
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| 6/7/2014 8:46:54 PM |
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peachy1954
Sacramento, CA
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Good Luck on your friends publication. When you know what will be assigned for an ISBN number please let me know. I would like to buy it and donate it to a veteran's library I know of and of course read it. My late hubby was Airborn but not officially in Viet Nam. Definitely will show my copy to people in my community which has quite a few Viet Nam Vets.
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| 6/8/2014 8:43:09 AM |
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whiskeyrichard1
Burlington, KY
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Airborne...not airborn.
Geronimo!
To my friend Currahee!
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| 6/8/2014 1:27:16 PM |
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newlady2
Goldsboro, NC
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Richard.. Please dont forget me when it comes to his book.. Nee dto take ten..bbl
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peachy1954
Sacramento, CA
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Airborne...not airborn.
Geronimo!
To my friend Currahee!
Wrong tribe but of course a spelling Natzi will have an easy mark with me. Thanks for the correction. Free virtual to all Airborne and hopefully our future published author.
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eastfoot
Bossier City, LA
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 Geronimo!
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| 7/29/2014 4:37:13 PM |
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aburg9092
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Will this be available nation-wide?
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| 7/30/2014 10:29:16 AM |
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whiskeyrichard1
Burlington, KY
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Spelling Nazi? I was simply pointing out to you that we are "airborne"...we take pride in that.You should to.Airborn is something different...sheeesh. But then you are a "leg" and your mistake is overlooked.
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| 8/1/2014 2:07:15 PM |
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eastfoot
Bossier City, LA
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Thank you for your service 
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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If this book gets edited much more all that will be left is a broken spine.
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| 10/27/2014 9:38:29 AM |
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eastfoot
Bossier City, LA
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Fun thing to do: Go to a parking lot and put sticky notes on peoples cars saying "sorry for the damage" and watch them look for it.
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eastfoot
Bossier City, LA
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http://www.amazon.com/Rush-Revere-American-Revolution-Time-Travel/dp/1476789878/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=
Series: Time-Travel Adventures With Exceptional Americans
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| 12/11/2014 12:43:01 PM |
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eastfoot
Bossier City, LA
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“The Roofwalker” by Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
---written by a female
Over the half-finished houses
night comes. The builders
stand on the roof. It is
quiet after the hammers,
the pulleys hang slack.
Giants, the roofwalkers,
on a listing deck, the wave
of darkness about to break
on their heads. The sky
is a torn sail where figures
pass magnified, shadows
on a burning deck.
I feel like them up there:
exposed, larger than life,
and due to break my neck.
Was it worth while to lay---
with infinite exertion---
a roof I can't live under?
---All those blueprints,
closings of gaps,
measurings, calculations?
A life I didn't choose
chose me: even
my tools are the wrong ones
for what I have to do.
I'm naked, ignorant,
a naked man fleeing
across the roofs
who could with a shade of difference
be sitting in the lamplight
against the cream wallpaper
reading ---not with indifference---
about a naked man
fleeing across the roofs.
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| 1/10/2015 2:07:17 PM |
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digitaldog
Grove, OK
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NOW Available: 
( cover and title re-done but SAME written book  )
 - - - " MY GIFT TO YOU "
by
Jerald W. Berry
$34.99 - Autographed
This is the story of the 168 soldiers who died while serving with
the 3rd Battalion (Airborne), 506th Infantry (Currahees), 1st Brigade,
101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles)
during the Battalion Vietnam Odyssey from 1967-1971.
...........
Among those ALSO included in the book are soldiers from
Delta Battery, 2nd Bn. 320th Artillery (Airborne),
4th Platoon, Company A, 326th Engineers (Airborne),
and
192nd Assault Helicopter Company,
Charlie Company, 31st Engineer Battalion,
FAC Pilot, IFFV,
Observer, IFFV,
5th Battalion, 27th Field Artillery,
and
272nd Military Police Company.
The book is a 465-page (7" by 9") available in both hard cover with dust jacket,
as well as, soft cover.
Also available in ebook at amazon.com and Barnes and Noble .
Visit either internet site to look inside and read pages.
Hardcover with dust jacket = $34.99
Softcover = $23.99
e-book = $9.99
Or . . . . .
you can shop directly from our official web-site
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CURRAHEE.......
( " C " Co. 1st Bde. 3/506th of the 101st and " B " Co. 75th Rangers )
 
-XoXoXoX-
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NOTE: 
See my original post for synopsis regarding this book
by my pal J. Berry.
He changed title and dedicated book to those who gave
the ultimate sacrifice.
///-- DD --\\\
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cupocheer
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