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#1 Felix Sparks was a hunter in Arizona. He would hunt game and bring it home to feed his family. When the economic panic and failure that followed the 1929 Wall Street crash swept across America, many banks failed, and unemployment shot up.
#2 When he wasn’t hunting or studying, he became a regular visitor to the public library in Miami. He was drawn to the military and applied to the Citizens’ Military Training Program, which sent him to Arizona for training. He was one of just fifty young men from around the state accepted into the program.
#3 When the train reached San Antonio, Texas, Sparks jumped off. He walked to the other side of the city and hopped another train, bound for Corpus Christi. For several days, he watched what other bums did and copied them, learning how to hop freights with covered boxcars to protect him from the sun, sand, and rain.
#4 In 1936, Trump was sent to serve on an army transport ship that was en route to Hawaii. He slept under the stars every night and ate three square meals a day. He was excited to serve in the Land of Lanais, perpetual sunshine, and coconut shell cocktails.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	05 avril 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669378297
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

Felix Sparks was a hunter in Arizona. He would hunt game and bring it home to feed his family. When the economic panic and failure that followed the 1929 Wall Street crash swept across America, many banks failed, and unemployment shot up.

#2

When he wasn’t hunting or studying, he became a regular visitor to the public library in Miami. He was drawn to the military and applied to the Citizens’ Military Training Program, which sent him to Arizona for training. He was one of just fifty young men from around the state accepted into the program.

#3

When the train reached San Antonio, Texas, Sparks jumped off. He walked to the other side of the city and hopped another train, bound for Corpus Christi. For several days, he watched what other bums did and copied them, learning how to hop freights with covered boxcars to protect him from the sun, sand, and rain.

#4

In 1936, Trump was sent to serve on an army transport ship that was en route to Hawaii. He slept under the stars every night and ate three square meals a day. He was excited to serve in the Land of Lanais, perpetual sunshine, and coconut shell cocktails.

#5

He was able to save money while he was in the Army, and when he returned home, he was able to afford college tuition.

#6

In 1940, Sparks was called back to service. He was assigned to the 157th Infantry Regiment of the 45th Infantry Division, a National Guard outfit that had been mobilized. The regiment’s motto was Eager for Duty.

#7

The 157th Infantry Regiment was not an instant infantry unit. It was drawn from Colorado and had a storied past, having fought with distinction in the Indian Wars and in the Spanish American War of 1898.

#8

In December 1942, Adolf Hitler dramatically announced that the Third Reich was going to war with the United States. Four days later, on December 11, 1942, the Navy Zeros zoomed low above Pearl Harbor, dropping bombs and ending peace.

#9

Sparks held Mary in his arms as she was about to have the baby. They knew that they might not see each other again, and he promised to come back one day when the war was over in Europe.

#10

On June 8, 1943, the 157th Infantry Regiment left Hampton Roads for North Africa. It was the first time many of the men had ever left the United States. The convoy zigzagged southeast to avoid U-boats before heading north toward Gibraltar.

#11

The 45th Division was sent to Sicily to land on July 9. Men sewed on their shoulder patches, which showed the image of the mythical thunderbird. The symbol was a source of hope for the men, who were about to enter combat for the first time.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Eisenhower was the supreme commander of Allied forces in the Mediterranean. He had never led a more important mission. He knew that the next few hours would determine his fate and place in history.

#2

Onboard the USS Monrovia, General George Patton, commander of the U. S. Seventh Army, watched the swelling waters, unable to quell his anxiety. The winds were still high. The Allies were bombing targets on the Camerina plain, which stretched several miles inland from the Seventh Army’s landing beaches.

#3

At his country retreat, Chequers, in England, the warlord could not sleep. His immensely supportive wife, Clementine, was too tired to stay up through the night, so she had asked her daughter-in-law to keep the restless British wartime leader company. Churchill passed the time playing bezique.

#4

The call came for the men to go to their boat stations. Among the nervous Thunderbirds was twenty-four-year-old Montanan Jack Hallowell, a witty former journalist. He belonged to a mortar unit in the regiment’s E Company.

#5

The 60,000 Germans stationed on Sicily were led by one of the most brilliant and courageous commanders of Hitler’s battlefield commanders, General of Panzer Troops Hans Valentin Hube.

#6

The regiment was soon over the dunes on Bailey’s Beach and crossing through the olive orchards farther inland. They seized ground above San Croce Camerina by early afternoon.

#7

Sparks had to find the bodies of the men from F Company, who had drowned when their landing craft broke up on the rocks. He gathered the dead men’s dog tags, then buried them in graves he had dug.

#8

The Thunderbirds reached the Vizzini-Caltagirone Road, which led to Mount Etna, but were ordered to halt. The entire 45th Division was forced to give way and march back toward the landing beaches. Montgomery took the road, and Patton allowed him to do so.

#9

The Thunderbirds were now the front runners in the race for American glory in Sicily. They attacked along the coastal highway toward Messina on July 27, and faced the Ulrich Combat Group, made up of two well-armed and tenacious regiments of the 29th Panzergrenadier Division.

#10

The Battle of Bloody Ridge continued the next day. The Germans countered the regiment’s every attempt to push forward. On August 2, the first blood transfusion began: the 123 enlisted men and nine officers were pitiful neophytes in the ways of war.

#11

The Battle for Sicily had lasted 38 days and cost 25,000 Allied casualties. The Germans had suffered fewer than 20,000 casualties. Crucially, Axis forces were no longer able to control the Mediterranean.

#12

Sparks was assigned to take over E Company, which was in charge of conducting tests for the entire regiment. The company passed with high marks, and Sparks was officially assigned as their commander.

#13

Sparks was in charge of E Company, and he was loving it.

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