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The Long Front of Valor on World War II Fronts
A sweeping battlefield profile follows Ham Napier and Ed O Neill through Sicily Bougainville and Europe from invasion mines on Utah Beach to Normandy hedgerows and Iwo Jima. It highlights acts of courage, shipboard bravery aboard the STAFF, and individual heroism in missions across France England Belgium and the Pacific with personal moments and combat scars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Empedocle
Sicily
Rommel
Africa
J. Hamilton Napier
USS Staff
45Th Infantry Division
Ham Napier
Napier
Lt. Napier
Bougainville
K Company
21St Regiment
3Rd Division
United States Marines
Ed O'Neill
Ed O’neill
Hill 100
Shall
England
Ludwigshaven
Germany
Channel
Frank Sneed
Belgium
Luftwaffe
Tivershall
Officers Club
Brunswick
Posen
Czechoslovakia
Gotha
Norfolk
Ham
Macon
Rosalind
Martha
Evelyn Yates
Southampton
Otc
Ralph Neppel
France
Carroll County
Iowa
Cherbourg
Utah Beach
Utah
Omaha
Normandy
United States Navy
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Hamilton Napier
Glennon
Georgia
Guam
Pearl Harbor
Amtrac
Cpt
O’neill
Iwo Jima
Mt. Suribachi