Members
Jake McNiece, Jack Womer, Jack Agnew, Brincely Stroup, Lieutenant Charles Mellen, Joseph Oleskiewicz, John Hale, James F. Green, George Radeka, Clarence Ware, Robert S. Cone, Roland R. Baribeau, James E. Leech, Herb Pierce, and Andrew Rasmussen. Others in the group included Frank Palys and Charles Plaudo.
Jake McNiece considered that any activities not directly concerned with killing the enemy were irrelevant. This attitude caused him to be in constant trouble with the military authorities. Nevertheless, McNiece finished the war with four combat jumps, a very rare feat for an American paratrooper. His jumps were made in Normandy, Holland as part of Market Garden, the Pathfinder jump into Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge, then his last jump as an observer with the 17th Airborne Division during Operation Varsity.
Of the activities of the Filthy Thirteen, Jack Agnew once said, "We weren’t murderers or anything, we just didn’t do everything we were supposed to do in some ways and did a whole lot more than they wanted us to do in other ways. We were always in trouble."
An interview with Jake McNiece and John Agnew can be found on the two disc version of the "Dirty Dozen" DVD.
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