Question

I need to know something about these terms for the book "Band Of Brothers":

V-2, C-47, Richard Winters, Sobel’s Contraband list, “40-and-8s”, The Samaria, Maxwell Taylor , “Hi-Ho Silver”, Herbert Sobel, “Over-paid…over-sexed and over here”, Ste. Mere-Eglise , “Red Ball Express”, Winter’s “Courts-Martial”, Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, “Flash…..Thunder”, Pathfinders, “The Night of the Bayonet”, “Screaming Eagles”, S.H.A.E.F., Omaha, Utah, Sword, Juno, Gold , Combat Exhaustion

Answer 1

Here are a few more terms that i have to know, that maybe someone else would know! Thank you!

Operation Northwind, Lt. Spears handling of prisoners in Normandy, “Hell’s Highway”, M-1, Sgt. Earl Hale’s “windpipe”, “Leg Bags”, Anthony McAuliffe, Zell Am See, Operation Market-Garden, “Straight-Legs”, G.I Bill of Rights, “pellet on a Shingle”, “Potato-Masher”, Easy company’s attitude toward the Dutch People, “Currahee”, DUKWs, “Hawg Innards Problem”, Bastogne, “Arnhem Annie”, Berchtesgaden (or the Eagle’s Nest), The “F-Word”, Drinking in “Easy” Company, “Chickenpellet”, “Long Walk to Five Points”, Brecourt manor

Answer 2

In order

1) A high explosives loaded rocket used as a terror weapon, 2)Cargo plane, 3) Major of E Company of the 101st Airborne, 4) A list of items Sobel did not allow his troops to have, 5) Box cars used to house the Airborne during and after the Ardennes offensive. 6)7) Rallying call of Sobel during basic8) Lt Colonel of the 101st Airborne E company 9) a term for the US Army in Brittan 10) French town captured by the 82nd Airborne 11) Term for the supply truck line for allied forces 12) Sobel attempted to punish Winters, but winters preferred himself be court martialled because he believed himself in the right. 13) A bridge captured by Allied forces which allowed a bridgehead across the Rhine 14) during Operation overlord due to the scattering of airborne forces in the night, allied soldiers where supposed to hail "Thunder" and the other was supposed to hail "flash" to determine if they where friendly or not.

Answer 3

15) Jumped before all other parachutists into Normandy and setup the landing beacons for the massed parachute jump. 16) Refers to an incident in which Sgt. Talbert woke up and startled Private Smith, who promptly stabbed him with his bayonet. 17) Nickname for the 101st Airborne due to their unit insignia being an eagle "screaming" 18) Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, located in Britan. 19-23) Refer to landing beaches in Normandy. 24) Old term for Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.

Answer 4

28) Refers to the M1 Garand Rifle, standard issue american infantry weapon 33) Failed parachute operation whose goal was the liberation of Holland and a bridge head against Germany. 37) Refers to the German standard issue hand grenade 38) Refers to the Motto of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment