Dorrity, Edward G. Gliders in the Snow, Story of the 193rd Glider Infantry. MIMEOGRAPHED SHEETS. Rare. New Orleans: Piety Hill Press, 1946. 22pp 4to. Published November 1946.
Mimeographed sheets by the Piety Hill Press of New Orleans. Binding: stapled sheets with plain cover. Size & Pages: 11 x 8 ½ inches, stapled. Our copy is the copy sent by the author to the Library of Congress in partial fulfillment of the requirements necessary to secure an American copyright. This also comes with an original carbon card of the LC card catalog card. Rarity: there are NO COPIES of this work found in the massive and tremendously useful librarians' and bibliographic tool, the OCLC/WorldCat.
This pamphlet is part of a very large collection of 90,000 pamphlets that we bought of the U.S. Library of Congress. Known simply as the Pamphlet Collection (as many of the pamphlets are identified in a distinctive and tiny 3mm rubber stamp), this pamphlet bears the Surplus 1. Library of Congress 30x50mm rubber stamp on the back wrapper. Conservative condition grade: a sold, and retrospective VERY GOOD (say, a conservative 7.5 on a 1-10 scale (ten being Mint)). The mimeo quality of this document is not very high; that, or the typed original was done with a not-so-good typewriter. In any event it is entirely legible (though occasionally with a little difficulty). This is a VERY BRIGHT, CLEAN copy.
Provenance: Formerly in the collection of the Library of Congress. There are a few scant interior (title page and front paste down) marks from the Library of Congress cataloging staff, but there are no other internal penciled or penned notes or anything else considered defacing from any previous use. $350.00
The 193rd Glider Infantry Regiment Unit History.
This section taken entirely from http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/193/193.html, with thanks.
"The 193rd Glider Infantry Regiment (GIR) was constituted on 16 December 1942 in the Army of the United States. It was activated 15 April 1943 at Camp Mackall, North Carolina under the command of Colonel Maurice G Stubbs (picture left). The 193rd GIR was immediately assigned to the 17th Airborne Division. Moved to the Tennessee
Maneuver Area 7 February 1944 then transferred to Camp Forrest, Tennessee 24 March 1944. Staged at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts 14 August 1944. Departed the Boston Port of Embarkation 20 August 1944 and arrived in England on 28 August 1944. When the 193rd GIR arrived in England, the regiment was immediately shuttled to Camp Chisledon, the 17th Airborne Division staging area, on August 28, 1944. Flight and tactical training continued and night maneuvers were added to the training schedule. When Operation Market Garden was initiated, the 17th Airborne Division was still in training and was held in strategic reserve. Battle of the Bulge - The Ardennes Offensive Suddenly, on December 16, 1944, the Germans launched a surprise offensive through the Ardennes Forest which caught the Allies completely by surprise. The 17th was still in England. But the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisons were in Sissones, France and were rushed by truck to contain the bulge in the Allied lines. Between December 17 and 23, the Germans were halted near St. Vith by the 82nd Airborne and Bastogne by a roadblock, defended by the U.S. 7th Armoured Division and the 101st Airborne Division. To help reinforce the siege at Bastogne the entire 17th Airborne Division was finally committed to combat in the European Theater of Operations. From 23 to 25 December, elements of the Division were flown to the Reims area in France in spectacular night flights then hastily trucked into Belgium. Meanwhile, Patton's Third U.S. Army had finally broken the siege at Bastogne with a marathon thrust from the south. Upon arriving the 513th PIR and the other elements of the 17th Airborne Division were attached to Patton's Third U.S. Army and ordered to immediately close in at Mourmelon. After taking over the defense of the Meuse River sector from Givet to Verdun on 25 December, the 17th moved to Neufchateau, Belgium, then marched through the snow to Morhet, relieving the 28th Infantry Division on 3 January 1945 and establishing a Division Command Post. A howling blizzard with below freezing temperatures greeted the 17th Airborne on the morning of 4 January 1945. General Patton had ordered the 17th Airborne to seize the town of Flamierge where the 11th Armour and the 87th Infantry Divisions had encountered brutal resistance from the Germans. Two regiments, the 513th PIR on the right and the 194th GIR on the left attacked the town of Flamierge while the 193rd GIR and the 507th PIR were held in reserve to counter an anticipated German panzer counterattack. In the ensuing days, the 193rd GIR as well as the rest of the 17th Airborne would gain their baptism of fire that would have tested the mettle of the most experienced airborne units. The fighting was so intense that the area would forever be called "Dead Man's Ridge" because of the high casualty count sustained in order to take the strongly defended German emplacements. By 11 January the German lines were crumbling and all of the 17th Airborne units regrouped except for the 193rd which drove on with American armored units to seize the town of Houffalize. On 16 January the 193rd rejoined the rest of the 17th Airborne and relieved the 11th Armour Division in pursuit of the 9th & 130 German Panzer Divisions and the 26th German Infantry Division. This took the 17th Airborne through Flamizoulle, Gives and on to Bertogne as the Germans continued retreating toward the Siegfried Line. Beyond Bertogne, 193rd GIR split into "Task Force Stubbs" and "Task Force Bell" with the combined objective of seizing the town of Compogne and the high ground in its immediate vicinity. Turning east from that area the 193rd along with the 507th PIR led the continuing attack across Luxembourg to the Our River on the border of Germany. The German 5th Airborne Division made a vain attempt to maintain a bridgehead at the Our but the 507th mangaed to cross into Germany and probe the Siegfried Line. The 17th Airborne was finally relieved by the 6th Armored Division and returned to camp at Chalons-sur-Marne in France on 11 February 1945. The 193rd Glider Infantry Regiment was disbanded 1 March 1945 in Belgium in a reorganization of the XVIII Airborne Corps. The 550th Airborne Infantry Battalion was also disbanded. Both units had suffered heavy casualties during the Ardennes Campaign and the remaining troopers were consolidated into the 3rd Battalion of the 194th Glider Infantry Regiment. (Book ID 22991) $350.00
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