Commander who said nuts

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Special Forces units are dominating in unconventional warfare and living up to their motto: "De Oppresso Liber -- To Free the The 75th Ranger Regiment is trained to be the most rapidly deployable unit in the Army capable, of conducting operations in I tightened the strap holding my eyeglasses. Somebody next to me punched my arm. A native of Dallas, Kinnard graduated from West Point in and spent 30 years in uniform, retiring in He parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, June 6, , with the newly organized st Airborne Division and was decorated for heroism during its drive against German forces in the Netherlands.

When Hitler launched a surprise counteroffensive in December, the st, then in France, was rushed into action and seized key road junctions at the Belgian town of Bastogne, where the Americans were quickly surrounded by the enemy. On Dec. Anthony McAuliffe, the st's artillery chief and acting division commander in the absence of Maj. Maxwell D. So at division headquarters, McAuliffe sat down with a pencil and paper and thought for a few minutes about what he would say. McAuliffe wrote it down.

The typewritten response was given to Col. Bud Harper, who delivered it to the waiting and still-blindfolded Germans. Written or verbal, they asked. The American Commander. But they were still confused. Harper discussed how to explain the American slang with Pfc. Ernest Premetz, a medic who spoke German. Instead, Premetz turned and faced the Germans. Despite the German threat, artillery fire never materialized.

Then the German air force began a four-day bombing campaign that failed to dislodge the American defenders.