June 6, 1944: 8/8: Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc — the Rangers Who Landed at D-Day and Fought Across Europe,by Patrick K. O’Donnell, with John Pruden as narrator. Blackstone Audio, Inc. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
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June 6, 1944: 8/8: Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc — the Rangers Who Landed at D-Day and Fought Across Europe,by Patrick K. O’Donnell, with John Pruden as narrator. Blackstone Audio, Inc. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
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It is said that the right man in the right place at the right time can mean the difference between victory and defeat. This is the dramatic story of 68 soldiers in the US Army's Second Ranger Battalion, Company D — "Dog Company" — who made that difference, time and again. From D-day, when German guns atop Pointe du Hoc threatened the Allied landings and the men of Dog Company scaled the sheer 90-foot cliffs to destroy them; to the slopes of Hill 400, in Germany’s Hürtgen Forest, where the Rangers launched a desperate bayonet charge across an open field; to a "quiet" section of the Ardennes, where Dog Company suddenly found itself on the tip of the spear at the Battle of the Bulge; the men of Dog Company made the difference.
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I in the world. I'm John Bats with Patrick K. O'Donnell. His book is Dog Company. |
| 0:05.0 | They survive D-Day. They survive Hill 400. Very few of them, however, are available to talk to |
| 0:13.0 | in the early part of the 21st century. Patrick has an enormous library of facts that he's |
| 0:19.0 | assembled oral histories over the years. And he came to writing this book thanks to |
| 0:25.0 | Len Lamel and others because they are the remaining memories of Dog Company. |
| 0:33.0 | Let's go to where Len Lamel and you had your talk. This was in southern Jersey, |
| 0:38.0 | early part of this century. Is that right, Patrick? Yes. It was a situation where |
| 0:46.0 | you know, books find me. I've written 13 books, seven on World War Two, and |
| 0:54.0 | another worse, and books have a tendency to find me. And that was certainly the case |
| 0:59.0 | where I was, I happened to be in that area. And I'll never forget I was eating |
| 1:06.0 | pizza that night. I said to myself, what is my next good book going to be? |
| 1:12.0 | And I'm near the mom of battlefields. And I decided to give Len Lamel call without |
| 1:18.0 | any real prop. And I said, I've known him for years. So do you mind if I stop by? |
| 1:24.0 | Sure, it was an absolute pet. And I went to his home and we watched |
| 1:31.0 | a baseball game. And he said, what's your next book going to be? And I said, I'm not sure. |
| 1:42.0 | When a dog company had, you should tell the story of dog company. And that for me was |
| 1:49.0 | an tremendous honor to be asked to tell their story, which is such an incredible story. |
| 1:58.0 | It's a story about men that literally spent shape history that were in some of the great |
| 2:02.0 | inflection points of the war. And I have known when since the mid 90s, along with my |
| 2:08.0 | other great friends, Sydney Solomon, who was that point, Dylan, |
| 2:13.0 | I'll say they led that attack. The other force against the borders and many, |
| 2:18.0 | many of these other men, which it was a real honor to have that assign, if you |
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