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- Unlike most books on the U.S. Army Rangers, this one also covers the many battles fought by the Rangers after D-Day
- Based on original documents and interviews with the surviving veterans by the author
With a centuries old warrior heritage, American Rangers endured the most difficult training that man could devise to overcome the most difficult challenges of the enemy and nature. For more than fourteen months, the volunteers that made up the 2nd Ranger Battalion had been finely honed for combat. Now, on June 6, 1944--D-Day--their battle would begin. The payoff was at hand. As the ramps of the landing craft went down, rockets on the sides of the ship fired ropes and grapnels skyward toward the cliff top. Some ropes fell short, men stepped into water that was over their heads and, loaded with equipment weighing over a hundred pounds, sank like stones. Sound and fury combined with fear and determination. Some men thought of the words they had heard each time they were tempted to complain: You volunteered.
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THE
BATTALION
The Stackpole Military History Series
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Cavalry Raids of the Civil War
Ghost, Thunderbolt, and Wizard
In the Lions Mouth
Picketts Charge
Witness to Gettysburg
WORLD WAR I
Doughboy War
WORLD WAR II
After D-Day
Airborne Combat
Armor Battles of the Waffen-SS, 194345
Armoured Guardsmen
Army of the West
Arnhem 1944
Australian Commandos
The B-24 in China
Backwater War
The Battalion
The Battle of France
The Battle of Sicily
Battle of the Bulge, Vol. 1
Battle of the Bulge, Vol. 2
Beyond the Beachhead
Beyond Stalingrad
The Black Bull
Blitzkrieg Unleashed
Blossoming Silk against the Rising Sun
Bodenplatte
The Brandenburger Commandos
The Brigade
Bringing the Thunder
The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign
Coast Watching in World War II
Colossal Cracks
Condor
A Dangerous Assignment
D-Day Bombers
D-Day Deception
D-Day to Berlin
Decision in the Ukraine
Destination Normandy
Dive Bomber!
A Drop Too Many
Eager Eagles
Eagles of the Third Reich
The Early Battles of Eighth Army
Eastern Front Combat
Europe in Flames
Exit Rommel
The Face of Courage
Fatal Decisions
Fist from the Sky
Flying American Combat Aircraft of World War II
For Europe
Forging the Thunderbolt
For the Homeland
Fortress France
The German Defeat in the East, 194445
German Order of Battle, Vol. 1
German Order of Battle, Vol. 2
German Order of Battle, Vol. 3
The Germans in Normandy
Germanys Panzer Arm in World War II
GI Ingenuity
Goodwood
The Great Ships
Grenadiers
Guns against the Reich
Hitlers Nemesis
Hold the Westwall
Infantry Aces
In the Fire of the Eastern Front
Iron Arm
Iron Knights
Japanese Army Fighter Aces
Japanese Naval Fighter Aces
JG 26 Luftwaffe Fighter Wing War Diary, Vol. 1
JG 26 Luftwaffe Fighter Wing War Diary, Vol. 2
Kampfgruppe Peiper at the Battle of the Bulge
The Key to the Bulge
Knights Cross Panzers
Kursk
Luftwaffe Aces
Luftwaffe Fighter Ace
Luftwaffe Fighter-Bombers over Britain
Luftwaffe Fighters and Bombers
Massacre at Tobruk
Mechanized Juggernaut or Military Anachronism?
Messerschmitts over Sicily
Michael Wittmann, Vol. 1
Michael Wittmann, Vol. 2
Mission 85
Mission 376
Mountain Warriors
The Nazi Rocketeers
Night Flyer / Mosquito Pathfinder
No Holding Back
On the Canal
Operation Mercury
Packs On!
Panzer Aces
Panzer Aces II
Panzer Aces III
Panzer Commanders of the Western Front
Panzergrenadier Aces
Panzer Gunner
The Panzer Legions
Panzers in Normandy
Panzers in Winter
Panzer Wedge, Vol. 1
Panzer Wedge, Vol. 2
The Path to Blitzkrieg
Penalty Strike
Poland Betrayed
Red Road from Stalingrad
Red Star under the Baltic
Retreat to the Reich
Rommels Desert Commanders
Rommels Desert War
Rommels Lieutenants
The Savage Sky
Ship-Busters
The Siege of Kstrin
The Siegfried Line
A Soldier in the Cockpit
Soviet Blitzkrieg
Spitfires and Yellow Tail Mustangs
Stalins Keys to Victory
Surviving Bataan and Beyond
T-34 in Action
Tank Tactics
Tigers in the Mud
Triumphant Fox
The 12th SS, Vol. 1
The 12th SS, Vol. 2
Twilight of the Gods
Typhoon Attack
The War against Rommels Supply Lines
War in the Aegean
War of the White Death
Warsaw 1944
Winter Storm
Wolfpack Warriors
Zhukov at the Oder
THE COLD WAR / VIETNAM
Cyclops in the Jungle
Expendable Warriors
Fighting in Vietnam
Flying American Combat Aircraft: The Cold War
Here There Are Tigers
Land with No Sun
MiGs over North Vietnam
Phantom Reflections
Street without Joy
Through the Valley
Two One Pony
WARS OF AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Never-Ending Conflict
The Rhodesian War
GENERAL MILITARY HISTORY
Carriers in Combat
Cavalry from Hoof to Track
Desert Battles
Doughboy War
Guerrilla Warfare
Ranger Dawn
Sieges
The Spartan Army
THE
BATTALION
The Dramatic Story of the
2nd Ranger Battalion
in World War II
Col. Robert W. Black
STACKPOLE
BOOKS
Copyright 2006 by Robert W. Black
Published by
STACKPOLE BOOKS
5067 Ritter Road
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
www.stackpolebooks.com
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. All inquiries should be addressed to Stackpole Books, 5067 Ritter Road, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055.
Maps designed by Mike Bechthold
Cover design by Wendy A. Reynolds
Printed in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
ISBN (paperback): 978-0-8117-1273-6
The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Black, Robert W.
The battalion: the dramatic story of the 2nd Ranger Battalion in World War II / Robert W. Black.1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8117-0184-6
ISBN-10: 0-8117-0184-0
1. United States. Army. Ranger Battalion, 2nd. 2. World War, 19391945Regimental historiesUnited States. 3. World War, 19391945CampaignsWestern Front. I. Title.
D769.312nd .B63 2006
940.54'1273dc22
2006008711
eISBN: 9780811752619
To Julie Rankin Fulmer,
daughter of Lucy Lolli Rankin and T/5 Richard Rankin,
Company A, 2nd Ranger Battalion,
for her dedicated work to preserve the memory of the Rangers.
Table of Contents
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CHAPTER EIGHT: |
| 165 |
CHAPTER NINE: |
| 187 |
CHAPTER TEN: |
| 205 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN: |
| 233 |
CHAPTER TWELVE: |
| 245 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: |
| 265 |
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Prologue
J une 6, 1944, 0700 hours. In the mobile headquarters his officers had dubbed The Circus Wagon, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower lay in bed. Eisenhower was exhausted, but unable to sleep. The evening prior he had visited the 101st Airborne Division as they prepared to board their aircraft for battle. He had demonstrated full confidence before his men, as a commander should, but predictions were that the invasion of Normandy would take a heavy toll on Allied troops. The staff knew he had written a statement in the event of success, but only Eisenhower knew about the alternate message he had prepared in case of failure. Typically and properly, he would take full responsibility for defeat, knowing that was a ticket to oblivion. To an onlooker, General Eisenhower seemed calm. Before him was an open book, a western, but Eisenhower was not reading. He was waiting. His mind was on the great task he had been entrusted with: You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.
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