The Filthy Thirteen is the name given to Demolition 1 of the Headquarters of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, of the United States Army, who fought in the European campaign in World War II.
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History
The Demolition 1 section is assigned and trained as a saboteur saboteur to destroy enemy targets behind the line. Inspired by Jake McNiece's leadership style, the unit had an outstanding missionary focus but their glaring neglect of aspects of military discipline that did not contribute to the mission became the condemnation of their officers. This unit earned the nickname Filthy Thirteen while living in Nissen hovel in England. The destruction section consists of thirteen enlisted men and they refuse bathing for a week to use their water rations to cook a game boiled from a neighboring manor. Photographs of men wearing Indian "mohawks" and applying war paint to each other aroused public interest in this unit. The inspiration for this comes from McNiece, which is part of Choctaw. During the European Normandy Invasion in June 1944, the group was boarded with the 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment by aircraft from the 440th Generation Force Force of the United States Air Force Air Force. They were ordered to secure or destroy the bridge over the Douve River. Half killed, injured or caught in jumps, but the rest led by Jake McNiece completing their mission. Unfortunately, most of the 3rd Battalion leaders had been killed on an initial leap so without contact with the 3rd Battalion, senior officers assumed the battalion had failed in its mission and ordered the Air Force to bomb the bridges. The Filthy Thirteen also participated in Carentan's capture.
During the Park Market Operation, the Destruction Platoon was assigned to defend three bridges over the Dommel River in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The German bombing of the city killed or injured half the destruction of man in the platoon, and McNiece was later promoted to platoon sergeant. Jack Womer took his place as a sergeant. For the remainder of the campaign, the people doing the demolition secure the command post of the regiment or protect the wire details. On one occasion, the survivors of Demolitions Platoon were assigned as squad rifles to a company that was not strong.
After returning from AWOL from Paris after Market Garden, McNiece volunteered to Pathfinder who thought he would never make another combat leap. These are paratroopers sent before the main troops to guide them on or guide in dropping supplies. Half of the original surviving members of Filthy Thirteen follow him to Pathfinder who thinks they will be sitting in the rest of the war training in England. To their surprise they were deployed to the circled Bastogne town at the height of the Battle of the Bulge. Anticipating victims as high as 80-90%, 20 pathfinders only lose one person. Their Beacon CRN-4 enables them to guide the next air supply that is essential to the ongoing resilience of the trapped 101st Airborne Division.
McNiece considers that any activity not directly related to his mission is irrelevant, an attitude that always makes him problematic with the military. Nevertheless, McNiece ended the war as a first-serve sergeant and with four battle-jumps, a very rare feat for an American paratrooper. His combat leap included Normandy, the Netherlands as part of the Operation Market Garden, the pathfinder jumped into Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge, and as an observer with the 17th Airborne Division during Operation Varsity.
From the activities of Thirty Filthy, Jack Agnew once said, "We are not killers or anything, we just do not do everything we should do in some ways and do so much more than they want us to do in other ways. We always have problems. "
Maps Filthy Thirteen
Members
- Jack Agnew (W.I.A, Normandy) * Bastogne Pathfinder *
- George Baran (W.I.A, Normandy)
- Roland "French" R. Baribeau (K.I.A, Normandy)
- Robert S. "Ragsman" Cone (P.O.W, Normandy)
- Charles "Maw" Darnell (P.O.W, Normandy)
- John Dewey * Pathfinder Bastogne *
- Charles "Trigger" Gann (P.O.W. Bastogne)
- James F. "Piccadilly Willy" Green (P.O.W, Normandy)
- John "Peepnuts" Hale (K.I.A, Normandy)
- James E. "LaLa" Leech (P.O.W, Normandy)
- Louis "LouLip" Lipp (W.I.A, Normandy)
- Thomas "Old Man" Lonergan
- Max Majewski * Pathfinder Bastogne *
- Miguel "Mike" Marquez
- Lt. Charles Mellen (K.I.A, Normandy)
- Jake McNiece * Pathfinder Bastogne *
- Frank "Shorty" Mihlan * Moved to HQ *
- John H. "Dinty" Mohr
- Joseph "Joe" Oleskiewicz (K.I.A, Holland)
- Frank Palys
- Herb "Herby" Pierce
- Charles "Chuck" Plauda
- George "GoogGoo" Radeka (K.I.A, Normandy)
- Andrew "Andy" Rasmussen (W.I.A, Normandy)
- Brincely Stroup (Practice Ledges, Pre-Invasion)
- Clarence Ware (W.I.A, Normandy)
- Jack "Hawkeye" Womer
- Tom Young
The list includes original members from 1943 and newer members during Operation Overlord and Operation Market Park. Interviews with Jake McNiece and Jack Agnew can be found on two versions of DVD discs Dirty Dozen . Jack Agnew died at the age of 88 on April 8, 2010. Jake McNiece died at the age of 93 on January 21, 2013. Jack Womer died at the age of 96 on December 28, 2013.
Literature and cultural influences
The 101st Airborne Division issued a press release on the unit, but war correspondents graced the story. Tom Hoge's War Correspondent started the ball roll when he wrote the first article about this umbrella army and created the name "The Filthy Thirteen" in an article for Stars and Stripes, June 9, 1944, "Filthy Thirteen Squad Dailat by None at Leaping Party."
Arch Whitehouse wrote an article for the True magazine that has some myths that will eventually find their way into the book of EM Nathanson, The Dirty Dozen which became the basis of the 1967 film of the same name. Whitehouse wrote, "They call themselves 'a dozen dirty,' and proud of their reputation as the most arbitrary and most violent umbrella group ever to reach this base..." Whitehouse also claimed that 12 original members were full blooded Indians who had vowing not to bathe until they plunge into battle and it requires their new lieutenant to defeat each of them in a fight to win their respect. The addition of this new member changed their name from Kotor Dozen to Thirteen Filthy. E. M. Nathanson was told by a friend who worked on a documentary for the war about a condemned detention unit sent to a suicide mission - more likely to be one of three Filthy Thirteen myths.
Searching for the archive of a cursed prisoner, Nathanson found no evidence of the unit (more likely because he searched for the wrong path) but used the information gathered for his novel published in 1965, which later turned into a blockbuster movie in 1967. Barbara Maloney , the daughter of John Agnew, told American Valor Quarterly that his father felt that 30% of the film's content was historically correct, including the scene in which the officers were arrested. Unlike Dirty Dozen, Thirteen Seven is not a prisoner; However, they are men who tend to drink and fight and often spend time in the castle.
Richard E. Killblane wrote Jake McNiece's version of the unit at The Filthy Thirteen (2003), and Stephen DeVito wrote the Jack Womer version in Fighting with the Filthy Thirteen; World War II story of Jack Womer - Ranger and Paratrooper (2012). Killblane follows up both books with a more accurate history of units that include almost all members accounts still in War Paint; The Filthy Thirteen Jump into Normandy (2013). Jerome Preisler wrote an excellent report on the Bastogne leap in its history of World War II trailers, First of all for Jumping; How the Band of Brothers is assisted by the Brave Paratroopers of the Pathfinder Company , in 2014. The Filthy Thirteen has been translated into French, Swedish and Spanish. Maurin Picard includes a chapter on Jake McNiece and Filthy Thirteen in his book, Des Heroes Ordinaires; Au coeur de la Seconde Guerre mondiale ( Heroes of the Second World War ) was published in 2016.
Cover War Paint; The Thrimeen Thirteen Jump into Normandy shows a copy of the painting commissioned by Joel Iskowitz, depicting the Thirteen Filthy preparing to jump into Normandy. The Stephens County Currahee Military Museum in Toccoa, Georgia commissioned a bronze statue of Jake McNiece.
See also
- Pathfinder (military)
- The Dirty Dozen
References
11. The "Filthy 13" squad is opposed by None at Leaping Party: where the Unknown But Poor Nazis Meet Us ", Tom Hoge, Star and Stripes Staff Writer, page 4, The Stars and Stripes, June 9, 1944
External links
- The Filthy Thirteen: The Real Gross Story of Dozen Amazon.com
- Jack Womer and Stephen De Vito. Fight With The Thirteen Gross . Ã, [1]
- Richard E. Killblane and Brian Miller. War Paint; The Filthy Thirteen Jump into Normandy . [2]
- Jake McNiece spoke with AMBUC at Enid, Oklahoma Enidnews.com
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