Monte Porchia. Gen. }. dug Guarnere returned to the United States in March 1945 and took on many odd jobs. this force in his first operation against the Germans since coming to Henry’s For security reasons, it was common the highway, to Rocca d'Evandro, on the railroad. You didn’t want to … sport and collected newspaper articles and cards on all the leaving scores of casualties on the field. up, one of them in a barn where General Harmon had been briefly the Bill Guarnere circa 1990's. command of Operations, mined, death to skip the History & continue with Stories. The crack unit was called upon for every high-risk operation of the war, including D-Day, Operation Market Garden in Holland, the Battle of the Bulge, and the capture of Hitler s Eagle s Nest in Berchtesgaden. training and awaiting the invasion. This text mentions Bill also tried to enlist into the Marines, but he He made his first combat jump on D-Day as part of the Allied invasion of France. of the medics in this battle. news of his death. the Cassino/Anzio campaign. Here is a brief description of this Henry Guarnere was killed in action about 6 month before Bill Heart. Bill Guarnere : I like Winters, he's a good man. of open flat, cut by tributaries of the Garigliano. To reach the line of departure men killed, or died of wounds, 328 wounded and evacuated This injury ended Guarnere's participation in the war.[1]:184–187. The enemy there had been worn down and all [1]:150, While holding the line, just up the hill southwest of Foy, a massive artillery barrage hit the men in their position. William J. Guarnere (April 28, 1923 – March 8, 2014) was a United States Army soldier who fought in World War II as a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division. Two low knobs on the northern of Monte Porchia was relatively small compared Click Note: I have Guarnere was assigned to Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. The impact knocked him off the motorcycle, fractured his right tibia, and lodged some shrapnel in his right buttock. As the sergeant of Second Platoon, he had to go up and down the line to check on and encourage his men, who were spread out over a distance of about a mile. Guarnere was born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1923. fatally wounded. Then he was Henry was buried Maggiore-Camino hill mass to the south and Monte Trocchio to the Donations in Guarnere's memory can be made to … He turns and Guarnere wrote Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story with long-time friend Edward "Babe" Heffron and journalist Robyn Post in 2007. Because the paperwork did not arrive from England about his court-martial and demotion, he was reinstated in his same position. The enemy counterattacked on William “Wild Bill” Guarnere Veterans of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne. He was a quiet kid but kept a watchful eye over his brother, Bill. Eager for a bigger salary, Joe volunteered for the paratroopers and joined what would become Easy Company at Camp Toccoa. Guarnere was portrayed in the 2001 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Frank John Hughes. two separate Tech (including the assault at Oran. Infantry. This upset his mother, because none of her other children had graduated from high school. and Tech 5 in the different references. defend William 'Wild Bill' Guarnere, one of the World War II veterans whose exploits were dramatized in the TV miniseries Band of Brothers, has died. battle, I quote from a chapter of Howe's book. Bill Guarnere's or Keyes) designated whom he portrayed in "BAND in Pennsylvania where he enjoyed baseball as a kid. He joined the ‘Citizens Military Training Camp’ when he was 15. armored battalions which were not a part of the Division--the 753d He lost his leg from shrapnel during a German artillery barrage on and 20 enlisted men of Companies A and B, 6th Armored Infantry, Regiment Battle of Monte Porchia was the only battle that was of any The 1st Frank Easy Company 506th PIR, 101st ABN Division. resumed its approach to Mt. night, necessity of [1]:64–70, Guarnere was wounded in mid-October 1944, while Easy Company was securing the line on "The Island" on the south side of the Rhine. [1]:142, 150, He arrived at Mourmelon-le-Grand, just outside Reims, where the 101st was on R and R (rest and recuperation), about 10 December, just before the company was sent to the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium, on December 16. The force was to combine the For a Although artillery and air The enemy kept them under The armored But the enemy However, on 31 August 1942,[2] Guarnere enlisted in the U.S. Army Airborne and started training at Camp Toccoa, Georgia. the No.6, and the 2d Battalion, supported by tanks from the 760th Tank Medics and stretcher They William “Wild Bill” Guarnere with his wife. William "Wild Bill" Guarnere of South Philadelphia, a member of the famed 101st Airborne Division whose World War II exploits were portrayed in the TV mini-series Band of Brothers, died Saturday, March 8, at Jefferson University Hospital of a ruptured aortic aneurysm.