September 28, 2024
Schiffer Publishing has announced the publishing date for Dying Hard Company B, 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th US Infantry Division in WWII. You can go their website for details; let me cut to the chase.
Book will be about 345 pages long; 10 maps showing Company B throughout the war, with emphasis on 1944. 16 pages of photos, but three of those pages are composites showing about 45 soldiers in the company. Many of the rest, 34 pix, are combat photos, many of which have never appeared in a history book before.
So, why should you read it?
Most importantly, it puts YOU in Company B. In North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, the Hürtgen Forest, Merode Castle, Battle of the Bulge, Siegfried Line, Remagen Bridge, and a nice little hellhole called Stalag VI G.
Secondly, you will fit right in with us in Company B.
How do we know?
When something in life knocks you down, you get back up, wipe the blood off your nose, and say: “Is that all you’ve got?” you’re in Company B.
If people told you that you were too small, too slow, too poor, or too anything, and you proved them all wrong, you’re in Company B.
You love dogs? In 1942, a young soldier found a stray dog in the Aleutian Islands and took care of him until reassigned to the States. Putting the dog, named Buff, in his duffel bag, the trooper took him on the long journey. Months later, the soldier climbed aboard a troopship—Buff hidden again in his duffel bag—and sailed to Europe
and Company B, where Buff served as a mascot and helped pull guard duty. So if you love dogs, you’re in Company B too.
So, rise and shine, grab your helmet and follow us. And make sure your M1 Rifle is loaded because we all are going back to the line.