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Hell is for heroes [videorecording] / by McQueen, Steve,1930-1980,actor.(CARDINAL)348256; Darin, Bobby,actor.(CARDINAL)362955; Parker, Fess,actor.(CARDINAL)392452; Guardino, Harry,actor.; Coburn, James,actor.(CARDINAL)346902; Kellin, Mike,1922-1983,actor.; Adams, Nick,1931-1968,actor.; Newhart, Bob,actor.(CARDINAL)766988; Pirosh, Robert,screenplay.; Carr, Richard,1929-1988,screenplay.; Blanke, Henry,1901-1981,producer.; Siegel, Don,1912-1991,director.(CARDINAL)844244; Paramount Home Video (Firm),production company.(CARDINAL)356370; Paramount Pictures Corporation,production company.(CARDINAL)141482;

Director of photography, Harold Lipstein ; edited by Howard Smith ; music, Leonard Rosenman.Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn, Mike Kellin, Nick Adams, Bob Newhart.It's autumn 1944 along the Siegfried Line -- a hopelessly out-numbered army squad tries to fool the Germans into thinking they represent a great Allied Task Force until reinforcements arrive.Not rated.DVD ; Dolby digital.

Subjects: War films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Aachen, Battle of, Aachen, Germany, 1944; World War, 1939-1945;

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The Siegfried Line Campaign / by MacDonald, Charles B.(Charles Brown),1922-1990,author.(CARDINAL)153194; Center of Military History,issuing body.(CARDINAL)162684;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 629-632) and index.Breaching the Siegfried Line -- The road to Germany -- The First U.S. Army -- V Corps hits the West Wall -- VII Corps penetrates the Line -- Action on the North Wing -- An airborne carpet in the North -- Operation Market-Garden -- Invasion from the sky -- Decision on the ground -- The approaches to Antwerp -- The Peel Marshes -- The Battle of Aachen -- A set attack against the West Wall -- Closing the circle -- Assault on the city -- The Roer River dams -- The first attack on Schmidt -- The second attack on Schmidt -- The Huertgen Forest -- The big picture in October -- New plans to drive to the Rhine -- VII Corps makes the main effort -- V Corps joins the offensive -- The final fight to break out of the Forest -- Battle of the Roer Plain -- Clearing the inner wings of the armies -- The Roer River offensive -- The Geilenkirchen Salient -- Ninth Army's final push to the Roer -- Conclusion -- The approaches to Dueren -- Objective: the Roer River dams -- The end of the campaign.The story of the First and Ninth U.S. Armies from the first crossings of the German border in September 1944 to the enemy's counteroffensive in the Ardennes in December, including the reduction of Aachen, Huertgen Forest, and Operation MARKET-GARDEN in Holland.

Subjects: United States. Army. Army, 1st.; United States. Army. Army, 9th.; United States. Army. European Theater of Operations.; World War, 1939-1945; Aachen, Battle of, Aachen, Germany, 1944.;

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The longest battle : September 1944 to February 1945, from Aachen to the Roer and Across / by Yeide, Harry.(CARDINAL)460487;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-295) and index.

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945;

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The Siegfried Line Campaign. by MacDonald, Charles B.(Charles Brown),1922-1990.(CARDINAL)153194;

"Bibliographical note": pages 629-632. Bibliographical footnotes.The story of the First and Ninth U.S. Armies from the first crossings of the German border in September 1944 to the enemy₂s counteroffensive in the Ardennes in December, including the reduction of Aachen, Huertgen Forest, and Operation MARKET-GARDEN in Holland.Breaching the Siegfried Line -- The road to Germany -- The First U.S. Army -- V Corps hits the West Wall -- VII Corps penetrates the Line -- Action on the North Wing -- An airborne carpet in the North -- Operation Market-Garden -- Invasion from the sky -- Decision on the ground -- The approaches to Antwerp -- The Peel Marshes -- The Battle of Aachen -- A set attack against the West Wall -- Closing the circle -- Assault on the city -- The Roer River dams -- The first attack on Schmidt -- The second attack on Schmidt -- The Huertgen Forest -- The big picture in October -- New plans to drive to the Rhine -- VII Corps makes the main effort -- V Corps joins the offensive -- The final fight to break out of the Forest -- Battle of the Roer Plain -- Clearing the inner wings of the armies -- The Roer River offensive -- The Geilenkirchen Salient -- Ninth Army's final push to the Roer -- Conclusion -- The approaches to Dueren -- Objective: the Roer River dams -- The end of the campaign.

Subjects: United States. Army. European Theater of Operations.; World War, 1939-1945; Fortification;

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A machine gunner's war : from Normandy to victory with the 1st Infantry Division in World War II / by Andrews, Ernest Albert "Andy",Jr.,author.; Hurt, David,author.(CARDINAL)873353;

Ernest "Andy" Andrews began his training as a machine gunner at Fort McClellan in Alabama in July 1943. In early 1944, he arrived in the UK for further training before D-Day. Andy’s company, part of the 1st Infantry Division, departed England on the evening of June 5 on the USS Henrico. Due to a problem with his landing craft, Andy only reached Omaha Beach on the early evening of June 6, but still had a harrowing experience. Fighting in Normandy, Andy was nicked by a bullet and evacuated to England in late July when the wound became infected, before returning to participate in the Normandy breakout. Following the race across France in late August, Andy participated in the rout of several retreating German units near Mons, Belgium, and his outfit approached Aachen in mid-September. For a month, Andy's squad defended a bunker position in the Siegfried Line against repeated German attacks, then after Aachen surrendered, the unit fought its way through the Hurtgen Forest to take Hill 232. Early on the morning of November 19, Andy engaged in his toughest battle of the war as the Germans attempted to retake Hill 232. Andy was wounded in the shoulder. After surgery and a month convalescence he rejoined H Company in time to fight in the Battle of the Bulge. His unit then participated in the fast-moving Roer to the Rhine campaign, then the battle to expand the Remagen bridgehead. Breaking out from the Remagen bridgehead, Andy's squad stumbled on a German tank unit and Andy narrowly escaped getting killed. Following a rapid advance up to the Paderborn area, Andy's unit races to Germany's Harz Mountains, where the Wehrmacht was trying to organize a last stand. Andy's outfit ends the war fighting in Czechoslovakia, where Andy witnesses the German surrender in early May. Following occupation duty, Andy returned to the States in October 1945. The war shaped Andy's postwar life in countless ways, and in 1994, Andy made the first of three return visits to the European battlefields where he had fought. This vivid firsthand account takes the reader along from Normandy to victory with Andy and his machine-gun crew.

Subjects: Personal narratives.; Andrews, Ernest Albert "Andy", Jr.; United States. Army. Infantry Division, 1st.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;

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NBC goes to war : the diary of radio correspondent James Cassidy from London to the Bulge / by Cassidy, James,1916-2004.; Sweeney, Michael S.,editor.(CARDINAL)703951;

Includes bibliographical references and index."The diary of radio correspondent James Cassidy presents a unique view of World War II as this reporter followed the Allied armies into Nazi Germany. James Joseph Cassidy was one of three-hundred-and sixty-two American journalists accredited to cover the European Theater of Operations between June 7, 1944 and the war's end. Radio was relatively new, and World War II was its first war. Among the difficulties facing historians examining radio reporters during that period is that many potential primary documents-their live broadcasts-were not recorded. In NBC Goes to War, Cassidy's censored scripts alongside his personal diary captures a front-line view during some of the nastiest fighting in World War II as told by a seasoned NBC reporter. Ambitious and young, James Cassidy's coverage of World War II for the NBC radio network notched some notable firsts, including being the first to broadcast live from German soil and arranging the broadcast of a live Jewish religious service from inside Nazi Germany while incoming mortar and artillery shells fell two hundred yards away. His diary describes how he gathered news, how it was censored, and how it was sent from the battle zone to the United States. As radio had no pictures, reporters quickly developed a descriptive visual style to augment dry facts. All of Cassidy's stories, from the panic he felt while being targeted by German planes to his shock at the deaths of colleagues, he told with grace and a reporter's lean and engaging prose. Providing valuable eyewitness material not previously available to historians, NBC Goes to War tells a "bottom-up" narrative that provides insight into war as fought and chronicled by ordinary men and women. Cassidy skillfully placed listeners alongside him in the ruins of Aachen, on icy back roads crawling with spies, and in a Belgian bar where a little girl wailed "Les Américains partent!" when Allied troops retreated to safety, leaving the town open to German re- occupation. With a journalistic eye for detail, NBC Goes to War unforgettably portrays life in the press corps. This newly uncovered perspective also helps balance the CBS-heavy radio scholarship about the war, which has always focused heavily on Edward R. Murrow and his "Murrow's Boys.""--

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Diaries.; Personal narratives.; Cassidy, James, 1916-2004; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; War correspondents; World War, 1939-1945;

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