Upstarts
Table of Contents
SECTION 1 Activation and Normandy
Foreword
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Essay One - The Fire Direction Center
1
Chapter 1 - Across the Channel and Over the Beach
5
Joe B. Davis
11
Chapter 2 - Hedgerows
17
Phillip Yazzie
25
Chapter 3 - The Peninsula
29
Essay Two - The Command Post Tent
39
Chapter 4 - Hill 122
43
Essay Three - Of Telephones, Wire, and Upstarts
53
Isadore Levine
57
SECTION 2 France
Chapter 5 - The Glamour War
63
Essay Four - March Order
71
Chapter 6 - The Battle of the Forward Switchboard
77
Vic Rizzo and the Air Section
85
Chapter 7 - Champagne from a Canteen Cup
91
Francisco Martitegui
97
Chapter 8 - Gravelotte
101
Essay Five - Rank and Insignia
105
Chapter 9 - Maps and Other Problems
111
Operations Sergeant Johnson
117
Chapter 10 - Something About Commanders
121
Essay Six - Time on Target
127
Essay Seven - The Helmet, Steel, M-1
129
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