Read Assignment to Hell Online
Authors: Timothy M. Gay
in Vietnam, 453–54
writing technique of, 51
Bingham, Barry, 11
Bissell, Clayton, 404
Bitter Battle, The
(J. Eisenhower), 422
Blakeney, Charles, 310
Blanchard, Mrs., 360–61, 363
Blinkoff, Jack, 395
Blitz of 1940–41, 62, 137, 241, 243
Blue Network, 266, 426
Blue Streak, The
(B-24 Liberator), 260–61
Bocage
(hedgerows), 297–99, 303, 318
Boni, Bill, 351–53
Boston bombers, 167
Bourke-White, Margaret, 26
Boyer, Dick, 48
Boyle, Ed, 24, 263
Boyle, Harold V. “Hal,” 10, 24, 28, 52, 148, 191, 206, 256, 353, 361, 385, 447
accident of, 373
amphibious landings by, 17
at AP New York operation, 49–50
Atlantic crossing of, 53, 54, 59
in Belgium, 406–11, 416–20, 425–27, 439
Bradley briefing and, 312–14
childhood of, 38–39
at college, 39
combat missions flown by, 124, 125
concentration camps and, 432, 433
D-Day and, 16, 23, 280
Darlan assassination and, 93–94, 96
death of, 451
final column by, 451, 452
in France, 275, 280, 286–94, 298–303, 305–6, 312–14, 318–19, 321–24, 326–28, 332–35, 344–46, 354–57, 359, 360, 363, 367–68, 370–73, 439
on French Resistance, 356–57
German prisoners and, 392–93, 400, 434, 436
in Germany, 428, 431–37, 442
Help, Help! Another Day!
by, 212
hitchhiking in Tunisia by, 111–12
on Hitler Youth, 433–34
on Hitler’s suicide, 438
in Holland, 391, 393–94
insecurity of, 51
Italian campaign and, 212–16, 218, 221–23, 225–30, 235, 236, 262, 439
in Korea, 449
Leaves from a War Correspondent’s Notebook by, 17, 50, 111, 241, 261, 409
Liebling and, 76, 110–11, 117, 120
in London, 244, 268–69
Malmédy Massacre and, 410–12
marriage of, 40
in North African campaign, 72–76, 78, 79, 83, 86–87, 93–97, 105–14, 118–20, 190, 193, 410, 439
in Pacific Theater, 438–40, 442
Patton and, 112–13, 196, 209
personality of, 16, 17, 38
physical appearance of, 17, 72
postwar reunions and, 450
postwar visit to Normandy by, 307
publicity tour by, 260–62
Pulitzer Prize awarded to, 27, 218, 439, 449
Pyle and, 96, 261
return to U.S., 260–63, 402
Rooney and, 250
in Sicilian campaign, 11, 187–88, 194–96, 198–202, 210, 217
in
Story of G.I. Joe
, 260, 264–66
Veterans of Foreign Wars medal awarded to, 449
in Vietnam, 450, 453
wartime mementoes of, 368, 437
women, fascination with, 229–30
writing technique of, 50–51
Boyle, John, 263
Boyle, Margaret, 263
Boyle, Mary Frances Young, 16, 40, 106, 113, 261, 263, 264, 267, 280, 286, 289, 291, 353, 434, 449–51
Boyle, Monica Murphy, 24, 263
Boyle, Neil, 263
Boyle, Tracy, 113, 437
Bradley, Omar, 23, 49–51, 75, 99, 102–4, 113, 173, 178–79, 187, 188, 192, 209–10, 257–58, 267, 272–75, 288, 296, 298, 299, 301, 303, 309–16, 318, 326, 328–30, 332, 344–45, 357, 363, 381, 382, 391, 396, 401, 414–17, 429–30, 434, 449–50, 460
Bragaw, Henry C., 234
Brandt, Bert, 255, 292
Braun, Joe, 28
Braun, Wernher von, 436
Braunschweig, Germany, 242
Bremen, Germany, 143, 144, 150, 166, 167
Brest, France, 328
Brightman, Sam, 267
Bristol, England, 14–15
British forces
First Airborne, 384
First Army, 104
Second Army, 272, 330, 399
Third Infantry Division, 389
Sixth Airborne Division, 243, 258
Eighth Army, 101, 104, 178, 192, 210, 220, 224, 336
Eleventh Armored Division, 389
Twenty-first Army Group, 288, 330, 391, 429
46th Division, 215
52nd (Lowland) Division, 352–53
XXX Corps, 381, 386
British Intelligence, 103
British Ministry of War Information, 62, 65
Brix, France, 272
Brodie, Steve, 85–86
Brodniak, Anthony, 335
Brokaw, Tom, 448
Brolo, Sicily, 177–79, 181–90, 213, 230, 236
Brooke, Sir Alan, 75, 76
Brown, John Mason, 11
Browne, Malcolm, 453
Brunelle, Bob, 268, 288
Brush-off Club, 229–30
Brussels, Belgium, 387, 390, 398, 399, 401
Bryant, Carleton F., 58–61
Bryson, Rob, 253
Buchenwald concentration camp, 36, 432–33
Bulge, Battle of the, 112, 332, 412, 414–22, 427, 448
Bures-sur-Yvette, France, 360
Butterfly bombs, 386
Buzz bombs, 272, 281–84, 286, 403, 436
Byrne, William, 106
C-47 Dakotas, 15, 252
Caen, France, 8, 21, 22, 272, 330
Caesar, Julius, 297
Cagney, James, 136, 141
Calhoun, Bill, 153–54
Caltanissetta, Sicily, 201
Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, 459
Canadian Devil’s Brigade, 337
Canadian First Army, 330
Caniff, Milton, 99
Canisy, France, 333
Cannes, France, 338, 340
Cannon, Jimmy, 375–76
Cap de la Hague, France, 286
Capa, Robert, 374
Cape Orlando, Sicily, 179, 184
Capo Raisigelbi, Sicily, 203
Capra, Frank, 65
Carentan, France, 271, 285, 288
Carroceto, Italy, 237, 238
Carrouges, France, 332
Carusi, Eugene, 12, 13, 444
Casablanca, Morocco, 17, 74, 88
Casablanca conference, 101–2, 126, 191
Casablanca
(movie), 277
Casey, Bill, 122–24
Casey, Robert, 26, 289–91, 293, 303, 304
Cass, Don, 356
Cassibile, Sicily, 190
Castel di Tusa, Sicily, 204–5, 210
Castelvetrano, Sicily, 200–1
Caucasus, 76
Caumont, France, 288, 302
CBS News, 173, 247–48, 448, 456–58
CBS Radio, 19, 26, 64, 65, 90, 119, 133, 146, 231, 246, 247, 362, 369, 439
Cefalö, Sicily, 202–3
Celles, Belgium, 425
Censorship, 26, 62, 65–66, 86, 146, 155, 164, 206–8, 218, 248, 252, 322, 405
Chamberlain, Neville, 434
Chambois, France, 331
Chartres, France, 331, 332
Chaudfontaine, Belgium, 426
Cherbourg, France, 270–77, 284, 285, 287
Cherbourg–St.-Pierre-Église road, France, 273
Chica, Princess Alexandra, 342
Chicago Daily News
, 26, 67, 255, 289, 292, 303
Chicago Daily Tribune
, 26, 110, 292, 370, 431, 449
Chicago Sun
, 255, 358
Choltitz, Dietrich von, 365, 366, 376
Christian Science Monitor
, 292
Churchill, Pamela Digby, 135
Churchill, Winston, 48, 54, 62, 75–79, 93, 101–2, 104, 125, 126, 135, 173, 191, 192, 219, 235–37, 284, 334
Cisterna di Littoria, Italy, 237, 238
Civilian Pilot Training Program, 4
Clark, Mark W., 18, 19, 75, 84, 93, 215, 218, 220–21, 224, 225, 236, 237, 239, 258, 335, 339, 345
Clark, Norman, 421
Cleghorn, Rufus J., 234
Clevedon, England, 267
Clews, Mrs. Henry, 342
Cochran, Philip, 99
Coe, Don, 119
Colella, James W., 420
Collier’s
, 26, 422
Collingwood, Charles, 26, 247, 362
Collins, J. Lawton “Lightning Joe,” 272, 274–75, 286–87, 311, 316, 318
Cologne, Germany, 125, 428
Combat America
(movie), 160, 162
Comblanchien, France, 424
Concentration camps, 36, 432–33, 445
Considine, Bob, 118
Corsica, 337
Cota, Norman, 296–97, 301, 307
Cotentin Peninsula, 270–72, 274–76, 280, 284–89, 297, 323, 324
Coutances, France, 324
Coventry, England, 155
Cowan, Howard, 428–30
Cowan, Lester, 264, 265
Cozine, Irene M., 230
Cronkite, Betsy Maxwell, 3, 4, 7, 22, 42, 43, 57–58, 80, 90, 130–32, 135, 139–42, 146–48, 161, 241–44, 254–55, 269, 282–85, 350–54, 378, 380, 385, 398, 413, 423, 445, 446, 458
Cronkite, Mrs. Walter Leland, Sr., 40–41
Cronkite, Walter Leland, Jr., 52, 127, 135, 136, 154, 155, 191, 206, 354, 361, 402, 447, 448
aborted parachute jump in Operation Transfigure and, 350–54, 370, 380
on Americans in Britain, 245
article on
The Duchess
mission by, 151–53
“assignment to hell” phrase by, 27–28, 146
Atlantic crossings of, 55–62, 81–82, 130
in Belgian-Luxembourg sector, 408, 412–15, 421–23
Bigart and, 117, 133–34, 146, 207, 455
in Brussels, 399, 401
at CBS News, 247–48, 456–58
celebrity status of, 148
censorship and, 62, 65–66, 146
childhood of, 40–41
at college, 41
combat missions flown by, 3–6, 8, 21–22, 25, 27, 123, 124, 143–49, 243–44, 251, 443
combat training and, 138, 140, 141
D-Day and, 9, 21–22, 269, 279
in Dover, 131–32
driving of, 4
exhaustion of, 253–54
first broadcasting by, 42
in France, 279–80, 285–86, 398–99
Gable and, 160–61
glider flight into Holland and, 378–80, 382–83
in Holland, 380–81, 383–91, 398
insecurity of, 51
interviews with Ike, 173, 457–58
Kennedy assassination and, 456
Little Blitz and, 241–43
in London, 6–7, 61–63, 130–32, 134, 146–48, 241–44, 249, 253–54, 269, 401
marriage of, 42
McGlincy and, 256, 281, 363, 412–13
memorial service for, 459
Murrow and, 245–47, 456
nickname of, 4
in North African campaign, 75, 76, 78–90, 95
at Nuremberg trials, 444–46
in Paris, 398–99
Patton and, 112
personality of, 2, 4, 8
physical appearance of, 3, 354
postwar reunions and, 450
postwar visits to Europe by, 457–59
A Reporter’s Life
by, 422
Rooney and, 28, 129–30, 248, 250, 456, 459–60
Stockton story and, 156–58
twenty-sixth birthday of, 83
uniform of, 56–57
at UP New York operation, 49
V-1 rocket attack and, 282–84
Wakefield
fire and, 63–64, 79
wartime diaries and letters of, 57
Wilhelmshaven raid and, 143–49, 256, 351
Woodward and, 383–84
working habits of, 2–3
World War II legacy projects and, 457–58
writing technique of, 50
Cronkite, Walter Leland, Sr., 40, 42
Crusade in Europe
(Eisenhower), 298
Culin, Curtis “Bud,” 298–99
Cunningham, Chris, 26, 260, 265
D-Day, 9–16, 20–25, 173, 277, 279, 280, 312, 398, 444, 457–58
D-Day Plus 20 Years
(documentary), 457–58
Dally, Bob, 88–89
Daly, John Charles, 119, 146
Daniell, Raymond, 138, 149
Darlan, Jean Louis, 92–93, 367
Darlan Deal, 92–93
Darnand, Joseph, 343
Davis, Elmer, 64–65
Davis, Richard Harding, 39
De Gaulle, Charles, 93, 102, 361, 363, 366, 367, 370–71
De Marco, Private First Class, 115
Dedeaux, Rod, 427
Dempsey, Miles C., 381, 382
Denny, Harold, 26, 367, 426
DeWald, Ernest T., 335
Dewey, Thomas, 375
Dickinson, Bill, 147
Dickson, Monk, 298, 310, 311, 314, 357, 363
Dieppe raid, 62
Dixon, Ken, 26
Dodge, Howard K., 233–34
Dönitz, Karl, 53, 150, 438
Doolittle, Jimmy, 53, 118, 173
Dorothea Dix
(hospital ship), 20
Downs, Bill, 26, 246, 386–87
Dreux, France, 331, 353, 354
Driscoll, Joseph, 421
Duff, Robin, 362
Dugan, Jimmy, 133, 135
DUKW assault boats, 177, 180, 181
Dutch Partisans, 388
The Duchess
(B-17 Flying Fortress), 150–53
Eaker, Ira C., 127, 154
Egypt, 82
Eichmann, Adolf, 454
Eindhoven, Holland, 381, 384–88, 390
Eisenhower, Dwight David, 4, 15, 49–51, 68, 75, 82, 84, 92, 93, 101, 103, 104, 113, 125, 135, 156, 173, 190–92, 196–98, 209,
210, 219–21, 250–52, 257–58, 272–74, 277, 288, 296, 309, 310, 312, 328, 345, 352, 353, 381, 382, 391, 396, 416, 429, 437, 457–58
Eisenhower, John, 422
Eisenhower, Mamie, 458
El Alamein, Battle of, 82, 103
El Guettar, Tunisia, 112, 113
Elbe River, 434
Elliott, Jesse, 150–52
Elliott, John “Tex,” 47
Elliott, Wilson, 122
Emden, Germany, 143
Enigma code, 103
Ernée, France, 345, 346, 357
Esch, Luxembourg, 415
Face the Nation
(CBS News), 451
Faïd Pass, Tunisia, 103
Falaise, France, 330–32
Falcone, Sicily, 208
Falkenburg, Jinx, 135, 136
FDR: The Man Who Changed America
(Rooney), 448
FDR
(B-17 Flying Fortress), 153
Fedala, Morocco, 83
Fessenden, Bruce, 267
FFI (
see
Forces françaises de l’intérieur)
Fighting 69th
(movie), 136, 141
First American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, 23–25, 458
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 137, 293
Flak farms (rest-and-relaxation homes), 164–66
Flanner, Janet, 29
Fleischman, Arnold, 212–13
Fleming, Ian, 193
Florence, Italy, 336
Flying Typewriters, 136
Focke-Wulf fighters, 143–46, 151, 163, 166, 174, 185, 318–19
Foisie, Jack, 202, 203, 260, 266
Forces françaises de l’intérieur (FFI), 275, 277–79, 320, 322–23, 340, 342, 358, 360, 362, 364, 365, 367, 368, 371, 372, 374, 401
Forêt de Rambouillet, France, 352–54
Forêt de St. Sever, France, 333
Fort du Roule, Cherbourg, France, 273–75, 286, 428
Fortunes of War, The
(Rooney), 270, 441, 447, 448