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Jun 14, 2023 · Image Credit: David Kenyon Webster. After Webster’s recovery, he rejoined the Easy Company after the Battle of the Bulge, only to witness his fellow soldiers dealing with the emotional and physical scars of the same. Soon after he joined the company, Easy discovered the Kaufering concentration camp, which was liberated by the United States Army.
Mar 1, 2008 · David Kenyon Webster worked as a reporter and writer after the war. The Saturday Evening Post published a portion of his memoir, but book publishers rejected his manuscript, seeking sensationalized novels of the war rather than authentic memoirs. He died in 1961 in a boating accident while shark fishing. Read more.
Apr 1, 1994 · 2,949 ratings152 reviews. David Kenyon Webster’s memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a first hand account of life in E Company, 101st Airborne Division , crafting a memoir that ...
About Parachute Infantry. David Kenyon Webster’s memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a first hand account of life in E Company, 101st Airborne Division, crafting a memoir that ...
Oct 12, 2011 · David Kenyon Webster worked as a reporter and writer after the war. The Saturday Evening Post published a portion of his memoir, but book publishers rejected his manuscript, seeking sensationalized novels of the war rather than authentic memoirs. He died in 1961 in a boating accident while shark fishing.
A Harvard student before his induction, Webster signed on with the parachute infantry, a posting that earned him the privilege of dropping behind German lines early on D-Day, long hours before Allied forces launched their coastal assault on France's Normandy Peninsula.
David Kenyon Webster (2 June 1922 – disappeared 9 September 1961, presumed dead) was an American soldier, journalist, and author. During World War II he was a private with E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division.
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