Glider Infantryman

Author : Donald J. Rich,Kevin William Brooks
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603449625

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Glider Infantryman by Donald J. Rich,Kevin William Brooks Pdf

A member of the famed Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, Donald J. Rich went ashore on D-Day at Utah Beach, was wounded in the bloody conflict at Carentan, landed in a flimsy plywood-and-canvas glider on the battlefields of Holland, and survived the grim siege with the "Battling Bastards of Bastogne" during the Battle of the Bulge. Glider Infantryman is his eyewitness account of how he, along with thousands of other young men from farms, small towns, and cities across the United States, came together to answer the call of their nation. It is also a heartfelt tribute to the many thousands who gave their lives in this struggle. Coauthored by Kevin Brooks, the son of Rich's best friend and World War II comrade, Glider Infantryman covers a span of nearly three years; his return home, five months after the war's end, as a toughened bazooka gunner and veteran of five campaigns. Rich's first-person narrative includes vivid coverage of the action, featuring an especially rare account of arriving on a combat landing zone by glider. Detailed, day-to-day depiction of some of the heaviest fighting in Holland follows, including the action at Opheusden, the center of the infamous "Island." Later highlights include the Battle of the Bulge, where Rich recounts his experiences in some of the hottest defensive fighting of the European Theater, including the epic tank battles at Marvie, Champs, and Foy.

Author : Jenny La Sala
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466976870

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Comes a Soldier's Whisper by Jenny La Sala Pdf

The Golden Warrior and the bravest man I ever knew. When Dave and I fought together, no matter how severe the action, he would put his hand on my shoulder, and it gave me a calming effect. He was as fi erce in battle as he was gentle in friendship. Charles E. Eckman, 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles Holtwood, Pennsylvania I remember David as a kind, soft-spoken man and was intrigued that he was also Colonel Michaelis radio operator. All of these men were larger than life! Little is known about Michealis because he was in command of the 502nd for such a short, yet important, time. Peter J. K. Hendrikx, author of Orange is the Color of the Day Pictorial history of the 101st Airborne Liberation of Holland www.heroesatmargraten.com Madame Rolle, owner of Chateau Rollea castle located in Champs outside of Bastogne, Belgium, and was designated as the headquarter command post for the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment when she was a young girlremembered our father operating his radio in her foyer, and said, He was a nice young fellow who kept talking to someone named Roger. Madame Rolle This collection of letters, written by a young 101st Airborne paratrooper soldier to his sweetheart from 1943-1945, is so personal and matter-offact that I almost forgot that David Clinton Tharp was only one of millions of heroes made by World War II. David Tharp certainly deserves a book like this in his honor, and it deserves to be read and praised. It is a mustread for every American, and especially for veterans of war. Palmetto Review

Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782007753

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World War II Glider Assault Tactics by Gordon L. Rottman Pdf

Military gliders came of age in World War II, when glider assault infantry were the forerunners of today's helicopter-delivered airmobile troops. From the light pre-war sports and training machines, several nations developed troop-carrying gliders capable of getting a whole squad or more of infantry, with heavy weapons, onto the ground quickly, with the equipment that paratroopers simply could not carry. They made up at least one-third of the strength of US, British, and German airborne divisions in major battles, and they also carried out several daring coup de main raids and spearhead operations. However, the dangers were extreme, the techniques were difficult, the losses were heavy (particularly during night operations), and the day of the glider assault was relatively brief. This book explains the development and organization of glider troops, their mounts, and the air squadrons formed to tow them, the steep and costly learning-curve and the tactics that such troops learned to employ once they arrived on the battlefield.

Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782007746

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World War II Glider Assault Tactics by Gordon L. Rottman Pdf

Military gliders came of age in World War II, when glider assault infantry were the forerunners of today's helicopter-delivered airmobile troops. From the light pre-war sports and training machines, several nations developed troop-carrying gliders capable of getting a whole squad or more of infantry, with heavy weapons, onto the ground quickly, with the equipment that paratroopers simply could not carry. They made up at least one-third of the strength of US, British, and German airborne divisions in major battles, and they also carried out several daring coup de main raids and spearhead operations. However, the dangers were extreme, the techniques were difficult, the losses were heavy (particularly during night operations), and the day of the glider assault was relatively brief. This book explains the development and organization of glider troops, their mounts, and the air squadrons formed to tow them, the steep and costly learning-curve and the tactics that such troops learned to employ once they arrived on the battlefield.

Author : Bart Hagerman
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Parachute troops
ISBN : 9780938021902

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U.S.A. Airborne by Bart Hagerman Pdf

Author : James E. Mrazek
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811744669

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Airborne Combat by James E. Mrazek Pdf

Comprehensive look into the dangerous world of glider warfare.

Author : Scott McGaugh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472852960

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Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin by Scott McGaugh Pdf

The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by a New York Times bestselling author. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances. This book distills war down to individual young men climbing into defenseless gliders made of plywood, ready to trust the towing aircraft that would pull them into enemy territory by a single cable wrapped with telephone wire. Based on their after-action reports, journals, oral histories, and letters home, this book reveals every terrifying minute of their missions. They were all volunteers, for a specialized duty that their own government projected would have a 50 percent casualty rate. None faltered. In every major European invasion of the war they led the way. They landed their gliders ahead of the troops who stormed Omaha Beach, and sometimes miles ahead of the paratroopers bound for the far side of the Rhine River in Germany itself. From there, they had to hold their positions. They delivered medical teams, supplies and gasoline to troops surrounded in the Battle of the Bulge, ahead even of Patton's famous supply truck convoy. These all-volunteer glider pilots played a pivotal role in liberating the West from tyranny, from the day the Allies invaded Occupied Europe to the day Germany finally surrendered. Yet the story of these anonymous heroes is virtually unknown. Here it is told in full – a story which epitomizes courage and sacrifice.

Author : Christopher P. Brown
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781618585530

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U.S. Military Patches of World War II by Christopher P. Brown Pdf

Great patch book focused only on World War II. Depicts hundreds of SSIs (patches), tabs and scrolls, as well as chevrons, including SSI reproductions for comparative purposes. Learning how to defeat the reproduction cheats alone is well worth reading.

Author : William B. Bache
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781678122393

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On the Road to Innsbruck and Back: A 103rd Division Infantryman's World War 2 Memoir by William B. Bache Pdf

Merriam Press World War 2 Memoir. On the Road to Innsbruck and Back is a product of the author�s long obsession with serving in Europe during World War II as a member of the 103rd Infantry Division. Too often he was given a responsibility that he neither deserved nor desired. But then he was in an Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon, at the service of a regimental headquarters. The chief model for On the Road is Stephen Crane�s The Red Badge of Courage, the best short novel about war that he knows. Like Crane, he wanted, above all, to demonstrate the moral cost of some months in combat upon a not-insensitive young man.

Author : Bart Hagerman
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9781563114366

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Seventeenth Airborne Division by Bart Hagerman Pdf

Author : John K. Mahon,Romana Danysh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCR:31210003841721

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Infantry by John K. Mahon,Romana Danysh Pdf

Author : James L. McDonough,Richard S. Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89058522806

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Sky Riders by James L. McDonough,Richard S. Gardner Pdf

Author : James M. Fenelon
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501179389

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Four Hours of Fury by James M. Fenelon Pdf

“Compellingly chronicles one of the least studied great episodes of World War II with power and authority…A riveting read” (Donald L. Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of the Air) about World War II’s largest airborne operation—one that dropped 17,000 Allied paratroopers deep into the heart of Nazi Germany. On the morning of March 24, 1945, more than two thousand Allied aircraft droned through a cloudless sky toward Germany. Escorted by swarms of darting fighters, the armada of transport planes carried 17,000 troops to be dropped, via parachute and glider, on the far banks of the Rhine River. Four hours later, after what was the war’s largest airdrop, all major objectives had been seized. The invasion smashed Germany’s last line of defense and gutted Hitler’s war machine; the war in Europe ended less than two months later. Four Hours of Fury follows the 17th Airborne Division as they prepare for Operation Varsity, a campaign that would rival Normandy in scale and become one of the most successful and important of the war. Even as the Third Reich began to implode, it was vital for Allied troops to have direct access into Germany to guarantee victory—the 17th Airborne secured that bridgehead over the River Rhine. And yet their story has until now been relegated to history’s footnotes. In this viscerally exciting account, paratrooper-turned-historian James Fenelon “details every aspect of the American 17th Airborne Division’s role in Operation Varsity...inspired” (The Wall Street Journal). Reminiscent of A Bridge Too Far and Masters of the Air, Four Hours of Fury does for the 17th Airborne what Band of Brothers did for the 101st. It is a captivating, action-packed tale of heroism and triumph spotlighting one of World War II’s most under-chronicled and dangerous operations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Military history
ISBN : UCBK:C117524031

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Army History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles J Masters
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0809320088

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Glidermen of Neptune by Charles J Masters Pdf

Masters has also assembled the finest existing collection of photographs of the American D-Day glider attack. These photographs - many of which have never before been publishedafford the opportunity to examine the inside of the combat gliders used on D-Day, to observe the glidermen in action, and to witness the often tragic consequences of the glider attack.