Those Devils in Baggy Pants

1st Printing (Appleton - 1951) VERY GOOD in poor dust jacket. DJ now in mylar for preservation. Binding is solid, no cracks and square. No marks in text. . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) A Beer for Duquesne -- 2.) The Kangaroo Rat Went to Spanish Morocco -- 3.) The Cacti Grow Tall Round Kairouan -- 4.) How Tranquil the Desert -- 5.) Big Rodgers Came Strolling Through the Vineyard -- 6.) The Arab Captures A City -- 7.) Casey Needed Wood to Cook His Rations -- 8.) Hill 424 -- 9.) A Nights Labor Lost -- 10.) Naples Went Wild Western! -- 11.) *Tell The Boys! Wish Them Luck* -- 12.) Gruenings Grenades -- 13.) Mission To the Ghost Town of Eighteen Nazi Overcoats -- 14.) First Sergeant Henry -- 15.) Thanksgiving With Lice And Socks In A Sheepshed -- 16.) Hill 1205 -- 17.) Olson And the Master Termite Make Plans For the Future -- 18.) Hill 687 -- 19.) Meditations In Hot Water -- 20.) Finkelstein Bubbles onto Anzio Beachhead -- 21.) *Arab, Were Looking For Trouble!* -- 22.) Duquesne Leads the Platoon on A Rampage -- 23.) The Strangeness Of Coincidence And Of Tolands Foxholes -- 24.) By The Banks Of Il Duces Canal -- 25.) Nine Hundred Nazis Came Marching -- 26.) *Our Day* on the Anzio Beachhead -- 27.) Life In Reserve At Anzio! -- 28.) Farewell to Italy -- 29.) A Pound a Week -- 30.) Big Rodgers Socks -- 31.) Take-off Eve -- 32.) We Jumped at One Thirty -- 33.) The Bridge Blew Up In Our Face -- 34.) A Salute to Master Scout Bachenheimer -- 35.) Nixon Outwitted Our Number -- 36.) Five Mark VI Tanks -- 37.) Six Men on A Suicide Stand -- 38.) The Arab Makes A Dedication -- 39.) Willie Mullins Receives A Letter -- 40.) Nixon Wakes Up In Panties -- 41.) The Arab Goldbricks on Psychiatry -- 42.) *Mac, Ive Been a Bad, Bad Boy!* -- 43.) There Would Be No Christmas! -- 44.) De Profundis. -- * Epilogue. . . . . . . . Those Devils In Baggy Pants is the classic portrayal of the life of Company C of the 504 Parachute Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division. Carter participated in every major campaign that the 504th was involved with from Sicily in 1943 to the end of the war in Germany in May of 1945.

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Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts. Inc.

Year: 1951

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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