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"The following chronicle of military action in WWII is concerned exclusively with providing an historical account of the combat activity of a single rifle company, namely L Company, 3rd Battalion, 319th Infantry, 80th Infantry Division.  No effort has been made to develop or present the activity of companion companies operating in complicity with it or of any parent unit or higher headquarters.  This compilation is a brief review of the men in the Company who lived together, trained together, played together, laughed together, fought together, died together and yes, cried together.  It is a testimony of the courageous, the ordinary and the timid, ALL HEROES.  For who would dare suggest that anyone who willingly endured the anxieties associated with advancing into the teeth of certain danger and possible sudden death, if for only one day or one hostile engagement, be branded anything less.  It is also a record of the replacement who as a complete stranger and largely ignorant of his new role, due to the brevity of his training, is called upon to supplant a seasoned veteran who has become a battlefield casualty.  No attempt has been made, however, at exaggerating, garnishing or glorifying the events surrounding the battles or their victims.  The accounts are simply factual descriptions of the daily encounters and perils faced by the men of Company L in the performance of their duties as combat soldiers.

 

Much of the narrative in this chronology has been supplied by former combat veterans of L Company who have attempted to revive events of war which date back as much as 47 years.  It must therefore be emphasized that in the span of 47 years some of the impressions that were sharp and easily reconstructed early in the aftermath of hostilities have over time become increasingly obscure.  Conversely, there are details surrounding some of the more punctuated confrontations which seemingly never lose their clarity.  Also, in deference to those who voluntarily contributed to this collective effort, personnel on the field of battle who were members of the same company, platoon or squad in the same vicinity participating in the same action often had very divergent perceptions of that action.  Therefore, there are portions which may not totally agree on the surface but, when compared and analyzed in relation to the whole, help to complete the big picture.  Furthermore, most of those who were there will concede that after 47 years a small percentage of inconsistency is acceptable, and will not materially detract from the overall content.

 

Company L was a rifle company, one of 27 equivalent companies organic to the 80th Division during WWII. The commander of a company was entitled to the grade of captain, and was responsible for the training, discipline, welfare and tactical employment of his company. A company that trained under the same commander for any appreciable time usually appropriated his personality and to a degree their performance was similarly predictable, L Company was no exception."

 

 

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