Many professional historians have recorded the actions of D-Day but here is an account of the airborne actions as described by the actual men themselves in eyewitness detail.Participants range from division command personnel to regimental, battalion, company and battery commanders to chaplains, surgeons, enlisted medics, platoon sergeants, squad leaders and the rough, tough troopers who adapted quickly to fighting in mixed, unfamiliar groups after a badly scattered drop A and yet managed to gain the objectives set for them in the hedgerow country of Normandy. About the AuthorGeorge Koskimaki was part of the 101st Airborne's daring parachute landing into occupied France that day. Now, drawing on more than five hundred firsthand accounts, including the never-before-published experiences of the trailblazing pathfinders and glider men, Koskimaki re-creates those critical hours in all their ferocity and terror. Told by those who ultimately prevailed, ordinary Americans who faced an extraordinary challenge, D-Day with the Screaming Eagles is the real history of that climactic struggle beyond the beachhead.

Titel
D-Day With The Screaming Eagles
EAN
9781612000442
ISBN
978-1-61200-044-2
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
30.12.2007
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
2.77 MB
Anzahl Seiten
380
Jahr
2007
Untertitel
Englisch