Read Assignment to Hell Online
Authors: Timothy M. Gay
Stevens, Kermit D., 8
Stewart, Jimmy, 160, 162–63
Stewart, Ollie, 91
Stockton, Don, 156–58, 459
Stoneman, William, 255, 292
Story of G.I. Joe, The
(movie), 260, 264–66
Strait of Messina, 208–9, 221
Strategic bombing, 126, 155, 173
Stripp, George E., 340–41
Struggle for Europe, The
(Wilmot), 173
Stuka dive-bombers, 103, 105
Stultz, Irwin, 58–60
Sturmstaffeln
(“storm squadrons”), 163
Submarine warfare, 4, 53–54, 60, 69–71, 80, 82, 83, 87–88, 267
Suez Canal, 77, 104
Sulzberger, Arthur, 149
Summers, William B., 411
Summersby, Kay, 135
Tabacchificio Fioche, Italy, 222
Talese, Gay, 460
Taormina, Sicily, 208
Tarawa, 302, 448
Task Force 34, 78–79, 81–83, 89
Taves, Brydon, 4
Taylor, Maxwell, 383, 421–23, 429
Tebbel, John, 449
Tedder, Sir Arthur, 173
Tedrow, Odell, 188–90
Thekla slave labor camp, 433, 446
Thélepte, Tunisia, 98–100, 109
Thobro, Clayton C., 340
Thompson, Jack “The Bear,” 26, 110, 292, 431–32, 434, 437, 449
Thrasher, Charles B., 228
Thurber, James, 447
Thurleigh air base, England, 128, 133, 159, 164, 248
Tibenham air base, England, 162, 163
Tiger tanks, 184, 389, 419, 421, 428
Time
, 91, 177, 373–74
Tojo, Hideki, 52–53
Tokyo, Doolittle raid on, 53, 118
Torpedo Junction, 4
Toulon, France, 338, 340
Treanor, Tom, 26, 177, 182, 185–87, 260, 264, 266, 358–59, 373
Tregaskis, Richard, 425
Trillin, Calvin, 451
Triumph of the Will
(movie), 446
Troina, Sicily, 99
Truman, Harry S, 40
Truscott, Lucian, 75, 84, 86, 87, 179, 184, 185, 188, 195, 202
Tulagi, 81
Tunisia, 75, 82, 92, 93, 98–100, 101, 103–9, 112–16
Turkey, 218, 224
Turner, Lana, 162–63
Twelve O’Clock High
(movie), 175–76
Typographical Error
(B-26 Marauder), 168
Tyrrhenian Sea, 177, 183, 186, 208, 221, 236
Ugalde, Jesse, 180
Ulidjak. Mrs., 115–16
Ultra machine, 103, 193, 329, 417
Umphress, F. E. Jr., 4, 21
United Press (UP), 2, 4, 6, 7, 22, 26, 42, 43, 56, 62, 80, 81, 88–90, 119, 131, 133–35, 147, 148, 155, 201, 242, 244, 246–47, 253, 254, 260, 269, 279, 280, 292, 293, 398, 422, 426, 444, 445
U.S.-Canadian Devil’s Brigade, 337
U.S. Coast Guard, 9, 10, 12
U.S. War Department, 52, 56
Unterseebooten
(U-boats), 4, 53–54, 60, 69–71, 80, 82, 83, 87–88, 267, 405–6
USS
Arkansas
, 56–62, 69, 79
USS
Augusta
, 23, 267
USS
Brooklyn
, 60, 63
USS
Chenango
, 83
USS
Dallas
, 86
USS
Massachusetts
, 80, 88
USS
Missouri
, 203, 441
USS
Monrovia
, 192, 194–96
USS
Philadelphia
, 178, 184–86, 189
USS
Roe
, 58–59
USS
Savannah
, 83
USS
Texas
, 4, 79, 81–86, 88–89
Utah Beach, 15, 16, 24–25, 270, 272
V-1 and V-2 rockets, 272, 281–84, 286, 403, 436
V-E Day, 438, 442
V-J Day, 442
Valognes, France, 271–72, 323
Vanity Fair
, 367
Vannes, France, 322–23
Vatican, 335
Vegesack submarine yard, Germany, 150–53
Venray, Holland, 390
Vessels, Jay, 222, 223
Veterans of Foreign Wars, 449
Vichy French, 76, 82, 92–93, 101, 112, 343, 344, 363, 371
Vietnam War, 450, 453–54, 456
Vire, France, 333
Vire River, 302
Vittoria, Sicily, 199
Volk, Harry, 406, 407
Volturno River, 218
Vouilly, France, 291–96, 307–14, 333, 345, 458–59, 460
Waco gliders, 379
Wade, Betsy, 34, 193, 209, 453
Wade, William, 133, 143
Wagner, Walter W., 181, 183
Wakefield
(naval transport), 63–64, 79, 90
Walker, Fred L., 215
Wallach, Eli, 41
Warner, Karl C., 115–16
Washington Post
, 96, 108
Waskow, Henry, 230, 265
Wassau, Hinda, 42–43
Watson, Jack, 5, 443–44
Watson, Theodore, 418
Weaver, Frances, 175
Weaver, Tyre, 174–76
Weber, William C., 215–16
Wellington bombers, 315
Wellman, William, 264–65
Werner, Doug, 131, 269
Wertenbaker, Charles, 373–74
White, E. B., 447
White, Katharine S., 30, 31
White, Wesley, 395
Whitehead, Don, 10, 26, 39, 75, 94, 177, 182, 184, 186, 187, 196, 197, 230–34, 260, 264–66, 268, 269, 272–75, 280, 288, 289, 359–62, 364, 439, 451
Whitehead, Marie, 264, 451
Whitman, Walt, 111
Whitney, John Hay “Jock,” 135, 155
Wilder, Roy, Jr., 30, 267, 323, 333, 345, 346, 357
Wilhelmina Canal, Holland, 380, 384, 389
Wilhelmshaven submarine yard, Germany, 122, 123, 143–49, 246, 256, 351, 455
Wilmot, Chester, 52, 173, 221, 243, 381
Wing and a Prayer, A
(movie), 159
Winter Line, 217
Wise, Ben, 393
Wolfe, Tom, 457, 460
Women’s Auxiliary of the Brush-off Club, 230
Wood, Edward W., 302
Woodward, Stanley, 383–84
World War I, 53, 67, 102, 136, 171, 215, 218, 224, 329, 336, 390, 400, 417, 444
Wright, Ben, 285
Writing 69th, 26, 27, 135–36, 138–43, 148–49, 351, 449
Wyler, William, 65, 138, 141, 160, 162, 165
Yank
magazine, 133
Zamperini, Lou, 424
Zera, Maxie, 439
Zhadov, Alexei, 435
Zon, Holland, 378, 381, 383
All five reporters went on combat missions in the skies over the Reich. Bigart, Cronkite, and Rooney flew on B-17s, which drew ferocious flak as they neared their targets. Cronkite was aboard the B-17
Shoo Shoo Baby
on D-Day morning over Caen, Normandy.
Rooney, Bigart, and Cronkite all covered the savage raids against Nazi munitions factories. On October 9, 1943, B-17 bombers attacked a Focke-Wulf 190 factory near Marienburg in East Prussia.
Rooney (
standing, left
) was a more cheerful soul after joining
Stars and Stripes
in London in late 1942. His articles saluted the unsung heroes behind the scenes of the USAAF’s air war against the Nazis.
Rooney (
left
) poses with a crew from the
Mission Belle
, a bomber with the 385th Bomb Group, stationed in Great Ashfield, England. Rooney called air bases “damned depressing places to visit”; three-fourths of the U.S. airmen who flew on bombing missions in 1943 and the first half of 1944 became casualties of one kind or another.
Rooney stops to smell some flowers while leaning against heavy bombs stored at an airfield, probably at Thurleigh. He chose this photo as the cover for his memoir,
My War
.
The London edition of
Stars and Stripes
was essentially a USAAF journal from late 1942 through early 1944. Rooney’s mentor and writing partner, Bud Hutton, is on the left, Andy’s great pal Charlie Kiley in the middle.