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LOVE COMPANY, 242ND INFANTRY
42nd (Rainbow) Infantry Division • World War II •

270 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview: Written by an enlisted man of Company “L” (“Love” Company), 242d Infantry, 42d (Rainbow) Infantry Division, this privately printed unit history traces the company’s journey from Camp Gruber, Oklahoma through embarkation, the Atlantic crossing, and combat across France, Germany, and Austria in 1944–45. Composed in stages during combat lulls, in a Nancy hospital, and in occupied Austria, and printed by a local newspaper plant in Salzburg, it was intended for the men themselves and their families as a keepsake of their shared service. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original volume.

Campaigns: Marseilles landing and CP-2 • Vosges Mountains and Alsace-Lorraine • Defense of Strasbourg on the Rhine • Koenigsbruck outpost line • Haguenau Forest • The Moder River Line and Defense of Haguenau • Rest at Lagarde and Wimmenau • The Hardt Mountains jump-off • Wurzburg and the Battle for Schweinfurt • East to Nuremberg, Fürth, and Munich

Commanders: Captain Cook, Company Commander (“the Skipper”) • Lieutenant Billie Rice, First Platoon • Lieutenant “Moose” Yelton, Third Platoon • Lieutenant Tucker (“Tuck”) • Colonel Lovsnes, 3d Battalion, 242d Infantry • Brigadier General Linden, Task Force Linden

Division newspaper: Rainbow Reveille

Table of Contents
Garrison to P O E
Atlantic Crossing
Marseilles and “C P-2”
40 Hommes — 8 Cheveaux
Filthy Vergaville
On Line at Strasbourg
Pillar to Post
Konigsbruck
Haguenau Forest
The Moder River Line
Defense of Haguenau
In Rest at Lagarde
Wimmenau
The Jump-Off
Slugging Through the Hardt Mountains
Dimbach
Wurzburg
The Battle for Schweinfurt
East to Nuremburg
Fürth
On to Munich
Fertig
Appendix — Roster

“But death is irrevocable no matter how or where or when it happens.”
— from the account of the death of Pfc. Skirrow, Company “L,” 242d Infantry