{"product_id":"fighting-with-the-filthy-thirteen-the-world-war-ii-story-of-jack-womer-ranger-and-paratrooper","title":"Fighting with the Filthy Thirteen: The World War II Story of Jack Womer, Ranger and Paratrooper","description":"In 2004 the world was first introduced to The Filthy Thirteen, a book describing the most notorious squad of fighting men in the 101st Airborne Division (and the inspiration for the movie “The Dirty Dozen”).\n\nIn this long awaited work one of the squad’s integral members—and probably its best soldier—reveals his own inside account of fighting as a spearhead of the Screaming Eagles in Normandy, Market Garden, and the Battle of the Bulge.\n\nJack Womer was originally a member of the 29th Infantry Division and was selected to be part of its elite Ranger battalion. But after a year of grueling training under the eyes of British Commando instructors, the 29th Rangers were suddenly dissolved. Bitterly disappointed, Womer asked for transfer to another elite unit, the Screaming Eagles, where room was found for him among the division’s most miscreant squad of brawlers, drunkards, and goof-offs.\n\nBeginning on June 6, 1944, however, the Filthy Thirteen began proving themselves more a menace to the German Army than they had been to their own officers and the good people of England, embarking on a year-of ferocious combat at the very tip of the Allied advance in Europe.\n\nIn this work, with the help of Stephen DeVito, Jack provides an amazingly frank look at close-quarters combat in Europe, as well as the almost surreal experience of dust-bowl-era GI’s entering country after country in their grapple with the Wehrmacht, finally ending up in Hitler’s mountaintop lair in Germany itself.\n\nThroughout his fights, Jack Womer credited his Ranger\/Commando training for helping him to survive, even though most of the rest of the Filthy Thirteen did not. And in the end he found the reward he had most coveted all along: being able to return to his fiancée Theresa back in the States.\n\nTable of Contents\n\nPREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS\nTHE 506TH PARACHUTE INFANTRY PRAYER\n\n1. MY EARLY YEARS\n2. FIRST JOBS\n3. MEETING MISS THERESA COOK: MY FUTURE BRIDE\n4. THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR II\n5. DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY: PRIVATE JACK WOMER\n6. BECOMING A STAGE PERFORMER\n7. WAR GAMES IN THE CAROLINAS\n8. THE JAPANESE ATTACK PEARL HARBOR\n9. OFF TO EUROPE TO FIGHT HITLER\n10. ARRIVING IN ENGLAND: FIRST IMPRESSIONS\n11. VOLUNTEERING TO BECOME AN ARMY RANGER\n12. OFF TO SCOTLAND\n13. CAUSING TROUBLE IN DUNDALK!\n14. BACK TO ENGLAND, AS RANGERS\n15. RANGERS NO MORE\n16. THE MAKING OF A PARATROOPER 1, 2, 3!\n17. BECOMING ONE OF THE “FILTHY THIRTEEN”\n18. LIFE AT THE WILLS’ MANOR ESTATE, LITTLECOTE, WILTSHIRE\n19. AN ENCOUNTER WITH WINSTON CHURCHILL\n20. PRELUDE TO OVERLORD: THE INVASION OF FRANCE\n21. D-DAY MISSION DISCLOSED\n22. THE INVASION IS ON !\n23. OFF TO A BAD START: JAMES GREEN’S PARACHUTE\n24. D-DAY\n25. D-DAY PLUS ONE\n26. NO TIME TO CRY\n27. GOO-GOO AND PEEPNUTS ARE KILLED\n28. CARENTAN—A RED ROSE FOR A SOLDIER\n29. BACK TO ENGLAND\n30. OPERATION MARKET-GARDEN: THE BATTLE FOR HOLLAND\n31. THE JUMP INTO HOLLAND\n32. EINDHOVEN\n33. THE KILLING OF CORPORAL JOSEPH J. OLESKIEWICZ.\n34. LIFE IN HOLLAND\n35. GOODBYE TO HOLLAND\n36. ON TO BASTOGNE: THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE\n37. A USELESS REPLACEMENT\n38. MIKE MARQUEZ AND THE SCREAMING MEE-MEES\n39. CHRISTMAS DAY, 1944\n40. STAYING WITH CIVILIANS\n41. OH THOSE NINETY-DAY WONDERS!\n42. TO THE FATHERLAND!\n43. LIVING WITH THE ENEMY\n44. THE WAR IN EUROPE IS OVER!\n45. THE LAST PATROL\n46. GOING HOME\n47. SETTLING BACK INTO CIVILIAN LIFE\n48. BRINGING PEACE TO THE HALE FAMILY\n49. THE REMAINS OF THE DAY\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1612001009\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: LFV.1612001009.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:DeVito, Steven C.|Womer, Jack\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book is in very good condition.  Clean with little to no signs of wear or markings highlights.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Books for Life","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50878951260357,"sku":"LFV.1612001009.VG","price":11.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/2914\/4773\/files\/1612001009-0.jpg?v=1793811723","url":"https:\/\/www.booksforlife.store\/products\/fighting-with-the-filthy-thirteen-the-world-war-ii-story-of-jack-womer-ranger-and-paratrooper","provider":"Books for Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}