Read Assignment to Hell Online
Authors: Timothy M. Gay
Fowle, Farnsworth, 230–32
Fragmentary bombs, 170
France
Îles d’Hyères islands, 334, 337–39, 442
Normandy, 8–16, 270–80, 285–308, 311–35, 448
Paris, 21, 29–30, 44–47, 50, 345–49, 352, 353, 357, 359–77, 398–99
Frankish, Brian, 427
Frankish, John, 400–401, 413, 426–27
Fredendall, Lloyd R., 92, 103, 104
Free French, 105, 108, 215, 345, 363, 367
French Resistance, 260, 273, 277–79, 295, 320, 322–24, 326, 338, 339–42, 356–57, 363, 372, 374, 424
French Second Armored Division, 357, 360, 361, 363, 364
French War Crimes Commission, 424
Friendly, Fred, 457, 458
Friendly-fire episodes, 197–98, 315–17, 330
Fuller, George, 267
Gable, Clark, 160–62
Gafsa, Tunisia, 112, 113
Gallagher, Wes, 26, 38, 229, 263, 280, 288, 293, 391, 451–52
Gallico, Paul, 367
Gallipoli campaign, 224
Garigliano River, 214
Gates, Colonel, 145
Gates, Stan, 200
Gavin, James, 429
Geem, William F., 411–12
Gela, Sicily, 190, 192, 194–98
Gellhorn, Martha, 26, 422
Geneva Conventions, 3, 252, 295
George VI, King of England, 76, 117–18
Gerbini airfield, Sicily, 192
Gerhardt, Charles, 304–5, 311
German forces
Third Parachute Division, 296, 304
Fifth Panzer Division, 331
Seventh Army, 311
Seventh Panzer Division, 331
Tenth Panzer Division, 113
Fifteenth Panzer Grenadier Division, 177, 187, 213, 215, 336
29th Panzers, 222, 223
709th Division, 271
Army Group C, 18, 236
Army Group C, 217
Blowtorch Battalion, 410–12
Hermann Göring
Panzer
Division, 196, 335
Panzer Lehr
, 313, 316
Volksgrenadier
units, 433
Gerow, Leonard T., 366
Gervasi, Frank, 294
Gill, Brendan, 30
Gillett, Charles, 430
Giraud, Henri, 102
Goebbels, Joseph, 45, 82, 213, 237, 281–82, 400
Golden, Melvin, 199
Gone With the Wind
(movie), 160
Göring, Hermann, 155, 161–63, 242, 243, 319, 335, 397, 445–46
Gorrell, Hank, 26, 292, 293
Gothic Line, 336
Göttingen, Germany, 163
Graham, Frederick, 433
Grandcamp, France, 285, 313, 317, 350
Grant, Bruce, 358
Grant, Cary, 162
Grant, Ulysses S., 102, 156, 218
Great White Fleet, 79
Greece, 141, 193
Greeley, Horace, 450
Green, Paul, 19
Greenock naval base, England, 61
Grending, Carl N., 252
Grenoble, France, 342
Guadalcanal, 81, 272
Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London, 283–84, 459
Gulf of St.-Malo, France, 288
Gustav Line, 218, 235
Hagenbuch, Glenn, 144
Halberstam, David, 453, 455
Hales, Sam, 398
Halifax bombers, 173, 315
Hall, Bernard “Benny,” 140
Hamburg, Germany, 242
Hamel, James, 458–59
Hamel, Mme., 291–96, 307, 308, 309, 311, 314, 460
Hamill, Pete, 460–61
Hamilton, Jim, 145
Hamm, Germany, 143
Hanover, Germany, 174
Hansen, Chet, 298, 310, 311, 329, 363
Harper’s Magazine
, 404, 406
Harris, Arthur, 125, 126, 173
Harris, Harry, 358
Harris, Louis, 222
Hart, Mrs. Cary, 452
Hautteville, France, 326
Hawker Hurricane fighters, 140–41
Hawker Typhoon fighter-bombers, 330, 331
Help, Help! Another Day!
(Boyle), 212
Hemingway, Ernest, 26, 96, 189, 190, 357–58, 362, 364, 374, 422
Henning, John, 216–17
Henreid, Paul, 277
Henry, John, 80, 88–89
Hepburn, Katharine, 162
Hewitt, Don, 67
Hewitt, Kent, 78–79, 82, 191–92, 195, 221
Hicks, George, 426
Higgins, Gerald J., 385–86
Higgins, Marguerite, 453
Higgins assault boats, 194
Hill 122, France, 302, 304
Hill 192, France, 302
Hill 609, Tunisia, 104
Hill, Gladwin, 22, 133, 134, 136, 142, 143, 147, 154, 158, 251, 269
Himmler, Heinrich, 400, 419
Hiroshima, 442
Hitler, Adolf, 44, 45, 48, 52, 53, 76, 92, 101, 102, 120, 125, 126, 154, 155, 162, 217, 219–20, 243, 281, 287, 311, 329, 343, 365, 400, 403, 410, 417, 419, 429, 434, 435, 438, 446, 458
Hitler Youth, 433, 435
HMS
Ramillies
, 338
Hodges, Courtney, 288, 310, 333, 410, 429, 435
Hoffman, Marcus, 431
Hogan, Alex, 139–40
Holland, 281, 354, 378–94, 396–98
Hope, Bob, 161
Höss, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand, 445
Hottelet, Richard C., 362
Houston Press
, 41–42
Hovey, Graham, 119
Howie, Thomas D., 304–7
Hoyt, Otis A., 145
Huebner, Clarence, 11, 259
Hürtgen Forest, Belgium, 402, 408
Huston, John, 65, 230, 234–35
Hutchison “Hutch,” 200, 201
Hutton, Bud, 68, 69, 133, 250, 375, 447
Île de Port-Cros, 337–38
Île du Levant, 337–39
Îles d’Hyères islands, 334, 337–39, 442
Imbody, Percy L., 427
Ingersoll, Ralph, 100
Ingram, Jonas H., 404–5
International News Service (INS), 2, 8, 80, 88, 119, 130, 133, 160, 201, 266, 293, 425
Irvin, Bede, 285, 317
Irvin, Kath, 317
Isigny-sur-Mer, France, 285, 291
Italian campaign, 17–19, 191, 193, 212–40, 258, 262, 296, 334–36, 339, 344, 418, 442, 453–55
Iwo Jima, 442
Jackson, Robert, 445–46
James, Joan, 111–12
Jensen, Richard, 113
Joan of Arc, 277
Jodl, Albert, 438
Johnny Reb
(B-17), 140
Johnson, Lyndon B., 456
Jolson, Al, 95
Junkers (Ju) 88s, 124, 151
Kallman, Art, 321
Kane, Bud, 370
Kansas City Star
, 263, 368, 411, 428, 438–39
Kaplan, David, 212–14, 217
Kassel, Germany, 163
Kasserine Pass, 103–5, 111, 112, 265, 416
Kauffman, Michael S., 115
Keddab Ridge, Tunisia, 113
Keegan, John, 126
Kelly, Albert G., 332
Kelly, Edwin, 355
Kelly, Monroe, 82–84, 86, 88–89
Kennedy, Edward, 437–38
Kennedy, John F., 455–56
Kenyon, Alvin O., 396
Kessel, John, 388
Kesselring, Albert, 18, 19, 217–18, 220–24, 227, 236, 237, 336, 442
Keyes, Geoff, 218
Kiel submarine base, Germany, 157, 165, 167
Kiley, Charles, 14, 133, 437
Kilpatrick, James J., 448
Kinnick, Nile, 424
Kluge, Günther von, 329, 330, 345
Kluger, Richard, 34, 35
Knickerbocker, H. R., 255
Koch, Ilse, 432
Koenig, Dick, 129
Kolb, Bob, 395–96
Korean War, 449, 452, 453
Koske, Keith J., 174, 175
Kuhns, James, 300
La Haye du Puits, France, 289–91
La Guardia, Fiorello, 5, 443–44
Laidlaw, Bill, 141–42
Lait, George, 266
Lake Nemi, Italy, 334
Lancashire bombers, 173
Lancaster bombers, 315
Landry, Bob, 266
Lang, Bill, 91
Lardner, David, 424–25
Lardner, James, 424
Lardner, John, 425
Lardner, Ring, 30, 424
Laval, France, 344–45
Lavontiev, Julius, 438
Layzell, Alastair, 457
Lazio, Frank, 110
LCI(L)-88, 9–14, 20–21, 374
Le Forêt Gouffern, France, 331
Le Mans, France, 330, 355
Leaves from a War Correspondent’s Notebook (Boyle), 17, 50, 111, 241, 261, 409
Leaves of Grass
(Whitman), 111
Leclerc, Jacques-Philippe, 357, 360, 361, 363–66, 370–71
Lee, Clark, 275, 293
Leigh-Mallory, Sir Trafford, 173, 313–15, 382
Leipzig, Germany, 242
LeMay, Curtis, 173
LeSueur, Larry, 362, 369
Leyshon, Hal, 7–8, 22, 133–35, 138, 142, 145, 146, 149
Libya, 101, 103
Licata, Sicily, 12, 190, 195, 198
Liebling, A. J. (Joseph), 1, 142, 167, 192, 247, 399, 401, 447, 455
alcohol use and, 275, 276, 290, 294
birth of, 32
Boyle and, 76, 110–11, 117, 120
on Bradley, 309, 312, 460
Bradley briefings and, 311–14, 345–46
brush with death, 100–1
childhood of, 32–33
combat missions flown by, 124, 125, 169–72, 260
D-Day and, 9–14, 20–21, 24, 259, 277, 444
death of, 461
eyesight of, 32, 276
in France, 21, 29–30, 44–47, 50, 275–79, 284, 288–97, 301, 303, 304, 307, 311–15, 317–18, 323–28, 332–35, 344–49, 357, 359, 365–67, 371, 374, 376–77, 424
as Francophile, 30, 33, 45–46, 294, 327
on French Resistance, 277–79, 424
health of, 32, 91, 259
on Kesselring, 217
Lardner’s death and, 424, 425
in London, 245, 258–59
marriages of, 43–44, 167, 461
on memories, 28
Mollie and Other War Pieces
by, vii, 460, 461
on Montdidier B-26 raid, 169–72
at
New Yorker
(
see
New Yorker, The
)
newspaper career of, 31–32
in North African campaign, 46, 76, 98–101, 109, 113, 114
in Paris, 21, 29–30, 44–47, 50, 424
Patton and, 112
personality of, 30–31, 276
physical appearance of, 9, 10, 29, 32, 169, 259, 277
postwar reunions and, 450
postwar visits to Europe by, 311, 314, 460
on Pyle, 95
“Quest for Mollie,” 114–17, 167, 425
The Republic of Silence
by, 260, 424
return to New York, 47–48
The Road Back to Paris
by, 52, 98, 150, 167, 309
Rooney and, 14, 250, 276, 447
Typographical Error
raid and, 168
uniform of, 56, 277
Wayward Press columns by, 425, 461
writing technique of, 51–52
Liebling, Ann Beatrice McGinn, 43–44, 167, 461
Liebling, Anna Slone, 32, 45–46
Liebling, Joseph, 32, 33
Liebling: World War II Writings
, 460
Life
, 26, 91, 266
Limburg concentration camp, 432
Liri Valley, Italy, 215, 236
Lisagor, Peter, 67
Little Blitz, 241–43, 396
Livorno, Italy, 335, 336
Llewellyn, Ensley M., 306
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 186
Lombard, Carole, 160
London Calling
(radio show), 147
London Daily Herald
, 244
London Daily Mail
, 209
London Daily Sketch
, 244
London Daily Telegraph
, 421
London News
, 421
London News Chronicle
, 244
Longest Day, The
, 271
Longjumeau, France, 360
Longstreet, James, 217
Lorient, France, 401
Los Angeles Times
, 26, 62, 177, 260, 264, 266, 358
Los Baños, Philippines, 442
Lovelady, William B., 395
Lucas, John, 236, 237
Luce, Henry, 373, 374
Luciano, Lucky, 375–76
Ludendorff Bridge, Germany, 428–31
Luftwaffe, 5, 21, 61, 62, 125, 129, 143, 149, 155, 156, 161, 242, 243, 295–96, 319, 325, 371, 386, 426, 430
Lund, Harry W., 215–16
Lusitania
(liner), 53
Luxembourg, 413–15, 421, 444
Lyle, Lewis “Hoss,” 21–22, 144
Lyon, Ben, 147
Lyon, France, 343–44
Maas River, 382, 384
Maastricht, Holland, 397
MacGowan, Gault, 91
MacVane, John, 326
Maginot Line, 44, 340
Maher, Joe, 135
Maisie
(B-24 Liberator), 142, 145
Malmédy, Belgium, 409–12
Manning, Paul, 133, 142, 269, 362
Maquis, 273, 277–78, 323–24, 340–42, 356, 363, 424
Marchant, Hilde, 147, 148
Marchiennes, France, 392
Mareth Line, 104
Marinelli, Giuseppe, 226
Mark IV tanks, 184, 202
Marseille, France, 340, 342
Marshall, George C., 48, 62, 75, 102, 173, 191, 219, 312, 334, 339, 421
Marshall, Howard, 362
Mathis, Jack, 150–54, 459
Mathis, Mark, 150, 153–54
Mauldin, Bill, 67, 219
Mauret, Émile, 340
Maxey, Edwin, 318, 319
Mayer, Louis B., 160, 162
Maynes, Seaghan John, 362
McAuliffe, Anthony Clement, 378, 379, 421
McCall’s
magazine, 48
McCarthy, J. J., 389
McClure, Robert, 109
McCormick, Robert R., 48
McCown, Hal D., 419–20
McCrary, John “Tex,” 135
McGlincy, Jim, 5, 7, 16, 131, 148, 242–43, 256–57, 281, 362–63, 412–13
McHugh, Frank, 141
McKay, Donald, 319–22, 328
McKelway, St. Clair, 29–30
McManus, John, 333
McNair, Lesley J., 265, 316–17
Memphis Belle, The
(movie), 139, 162
Meredith, Burgess, 260, 264–66
Messerschmitts, 98, 101, 105, 121, 122, 145, 151, 166, 237, 325
Messina, Sicily, 178, 186, 190, 206, 210–11
Metz, France, 402, 406, 408
Meuse River, 378, 379, 381, 385, 390, 417, 425
MI6, 193
Middleton, Troy, 195, 328
Miliciens (Milice), 343, 361, 363
Minarik, Else Holmelund, 454, 455
Mitchell, Joe, 1, 169, 259
Mitchell bombers, 223
Mitchum, Robert, 264, 265
Molesworth air base, England, 1, 2, 6, 8, 22, 133, 145, 147, 156, 248, 459
Mollie, Private, 114–17, 167
Mollie and Other War Pieces
(Liebling), vii, 460, 461
Montdidier airfield, France, 169–73, 260
Monte Cassino, Italy, 215, 236, 237, 238, 239, 264, 265, 335, 359
Monte Cipolla, Sicily, 177–78, 181–84, 187, 189, 190, 236, 260, 337, 359, 442
Monte Rotondo, Italy, 234