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Rocks in the Stream. The German drive had already been slowed down by the heroic stand of the 101st Airborne at Bastogne (see below), which confined Rundstedt's columns to secondary roads north and south of the town. The 82nd Airborne had put up a fierce defense around Stavelot, the 7th Armored between Saint-Vith and Vielsalm, the 1st Infantry at the north shoulder of the salient below Monschau, and the 4th Infantry at the south shoulder, around Echternach. The two infantry outfits had prevented Rundstedt from widening the salient's base. They were pegs that...
...101st Airborne: Brigadier General Maxwell D. Taylor, 42-year-old West Pointer, best known for his dangerous mission to Rome to negotiate armistice details with Marshal Badoglio just before the landing at Salerno...
Allied Headquarters filled in the story. The lost commander was one of the best-known, best-liked of U.S. airborne officers: Brigadier General Don Forrester Pratt, assistant commander of the 101st Airborne Division. He had led his detachment to a landing on the extreme right of the Allied line, northwest of Carentan. He died when his command glider crashed into a tree...
...favorite stories of the hard-boiled 101st is about Don Pratt's first parachute jump, when the general's husky young aide was assigned to jump with him and pick up the pieces. General Pratt landed without a scratch and picked up the aide, who had broken...
Farther south was the other half of Bradley's army, the V Corps. Its 2nd Division and 101st Airborne Division took, lost and retook Carentan, lying amid flooded lowlands at the juncture of the two original U.S. beachheads-a naturally vulnerable point. Around the bend in the Bay of the Seine, other U.S. troops fought their way southward...