[bookshare-discuss] Re: Rogers Rules of Ranging
- From: talmage@xxxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:59:55 -0500
When I was young and more foolish, I was in the 2nd Ranger Battalion
75th Airborne Infantry at Fort Lewis, Washington.
Well, maybe not more foolish, but certainly younger.
They always made a point of instilling a sense of history into the
unit's members, and Rogers was the starting point for the trips down
memory lane. 2 other units that also featured prominently, were
Merrill's Marauders and Darby's Rangers, both of World War II vintage.
A few books already in the Bookshare collection are:
Ghost Soldiers
by
Hampton Sides
Darby's Rangers: We Led The Way
by
William O. Darby and William H. Baumer
Black Hawk Down
by
Mark Bowden
I haven't included the synopsis for Darby's Rangers, as it is quite
brief, nor the one for Black Hawk Down, as after the movie most
people are familiar with its subject, but here's the one for Ghost Soldiers.
The Bataan Death March was just the beginning of the woes American
soldiers captured by the Japanese army in the Philippines had to
endure. The survivors
of the march faced not only their captors' regular brutality (having
surrendered, they were considered to be less than honorable foes),
but also a host
of illnesses such as dysentery and malaria. For three years these
"ghost soldiers" lived in misery, suffering terrible losses.
When Army Rangers among Douglas MacArthur's forces arrived in the
Philippines, they hatched a daring plan to liberate their captured
comrades, a mission
that, if successful, would prove to be a tremendous morale booster at
the front and at home. Led by a young officer named Henry Mucci
(called "Little MacArthur"
for his constant pipe as well as his brilliance as a strategist), a
combined Ranger and Filipino guerrilla force penetrated far behind
enemy lines, attacked
Japanese forces guarding Allied prisoners at a jungle outpost called
Cabanatuan, and shepherded hundreds of prisoners to safety, with an
angry Japanese
army in hot pursuit. Amazingly, they suffered only light casualties.
In Ghost Soldiers , journalist Hampton Sides recounts that daring
rescue, once known to every American schoolchild but now long
forgotten. A gifted storyteller,
Sides packs his narrative with detailed descriptions of the principal
actors on both sides of the struggle and with moments of danger and
exhilaration.
Thrilling from start to finish, his book celebrates the heroism of
hundreds of warriors and brings renewed attention to one of the
Rangers' finest hours.
At 12:02 AM 3/20/2007, you wrote:
Fascinating!! Where did you get this? Were you a
ranger or special forces?
Cindy
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