Has anyone read this book by Robert W. Black?I just picked it up and am hoping its good.

I have a book here at my office that I picked up at an antique store, "The Battle is the Pay-off", by Ralph Ingersoll (CPT, USA), 1943. It discusses the Ranger raid preceding the start of the Battla of El Guettar (Tunisa). CPT Ingersoll was a participant with D Company, 1st Engineer Battalion, attached to the 1st Ranger Battalion during the raid. The first half of the book, though, discusses engineer operations in North Africa and is quite interesting. The 2nd Ranger Battalion action in the Huertgen Forest is discussed in "A Dark and Bloody Ground", by Edward A. Miller, 1995. The 2nd Rangers actions at Poinr du Hoe are covered in detail in CMH Pub 100-14, "Small Unit Actions", originally published by the Historical Division, Department of War in 1946 ( a copy can be acquired from USAPA website "www.usapa.army.mil") The actions of the 2nd & 5th Rangers at Normandy are covered in the 50th Anniversary of WW2 series volumne on D-Day, the 6th Rangers are covered in the volume, "Return to teh Philipines, and 1st & 3rd Rangers are discussed in volumes on North Africe, Sicisly and the two volumes covering the Italian campaign. They can be purshased from USAPA, and titles can be found at Chief of Military History linat "www.army.mil". These are all excellent publications if you are looking for accurate history of the Rangers in WW2.

"Rangers Lead the Way"

Jeff

P.S. You can also try the Ranger Regiment (75th Infantry) and Ranger Association sites which can be reached from the Ft. Benning website.

I can tell you that it was one of two POW rescues conducted in the Phillipines, the other one included an airborne drop by a task force from the 11th Airborne Division.

In this raid, 120 Rangers with Phillipine guerillas penetrated Japanese lines attacked and captured the POW camp, liberated the POWs then returned them to US lines. The two raids were conducted out of fear that the Japanese would execute the POWs rather than have then liberated. These were all of the Battered Bastards of Battan that remained in the Philipines. The remainder that had not died had been shipped to Japan or Manchuria as slave labor. The surviving POWs in Manchuria were eventually rescued by the Russians.

I found a interesting site tonight while surfing the net.Has some neat reading to it.
www.DarbyRangers.com