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Author : Richard McMunn
Publisher : How2Become Ltd
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781907558825
Author : Bernd Horn,Michel Wyczynski
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781550023886
This is the story of 1 Canadian Parachute Battalion, established as the "tip of the spear" of Allied attacks in the Second World War.
Author : Gary Harold Rice
Publisher : Carleton Place, ON : GEHR Pub.
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89073208985
Wendell James Clark was born in Ottawa, Ontario on February 19, 1915 to Thomas and Irena Clark. In September 1936, Wendell began his military service as a private in the Canadian Army Permanent Force before continuing in its Active Service Force. In September 1942, he joined the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion and was killed in action June 6, 1944 in Normandy, France. Focuses primarily on the last fifteen days of his life.
Author : Brian Nolan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89058486655
Author : Jason Woods
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399040211
The date is the 6 June 1944. The paratroopers on board the aircraft are crammed together, joking and singing over the drone of the engines, none of them dwelling on the gnawing fear in their guts. They reach the French coastline, and everyone goes quiet when loud explosions and flashes erupt around the aircraft. Pilots desperately dodge and swerve through the cool night air while the men hold firm, preparing to jump. They reach the open door; the green light flicks on and they leap without hesitation into a sky lit up by flak, ready to meet their fate. One after another, thousands of white parachutes billow out and the men fall through the air not knowing where they might land or if they will even survive the drop; but their minds are set. They are clear about their mission and its critical importance as part of the bigger picture. Some ’chutes do not open, weapons and kit are torn off in the slipstream, and anti-aircraft guns pick men off and many never make it to the ground alive. The Normandy landings of 1944 were just one of the many famous operations in the stunning history of the Paras. This book by former paratrooper Jason Woods gives the reader an unprecedented snapshot of the role that these brave and determined paratroopers have played throughout their history, demonstrating not only the courage, strength and fitness of the men who make up this mighty regiment, but also their intelligence, compassion, and wicked sense of humor. This powerful journey through aspects of all the key wars and conflicts that the regiment has been engaged in over the last eighty years is made through the eyes of those who served. The book reveals how the Paras have become seen as an elite fighting force, feared by those who have had the misfortune to come up against them on the field of battle. This book covers challenging operations in Northern Ireland, the Falklands, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone. It includes an exciting overview of Operation Telic in Iraq, the epic battles in Afghanistan, and subsequent withdrawal of all British citizens and troops from Kabul in 2021, on Operation Pitting. Packed with short interviews and poignant quotes, many original and never seen before, from current and former Paras, the author highlights the regiment’s constant evolution, as the battlefield conditions have changed, into today’s modern 16 Air Assault Brigade Rapid Reaction Force and Special Forces Support Group, while always maintaining the core standards and ethos embodied in the regimental motto Utrinque Paratus – ‘Ready for Anything’. Finally, get a glimpse into the transition many Paras make when they eventually leave the regiment and join the secretive private security industry, known as the ‘Circuit’.
Author : Gary C. Boegel
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781412059411
Boys of the Clouds tells the fascinating stories, in their own words, of over seventy veterans of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion during the Second World War. The Battalion, part of the British 6th Airborne Division, was among the very first Allied soldiers to land on French soil on June 6, 1944. Despite a widely scattered drop, they managed to take and hold all their objectives on D-Day, and continued to hold off German counter attacks through that fateful summer. After suffering heavy losses in Normandy, the unit returned to England in September 1944 to refit and train for the next airborne operation. This training was interrupted when they were hastily sent to defend against the German offensive in the Ardennes, commonly known as the Battle of the Bulge. They were the only Canadian unit to take part in this action. After the threat had passed, and the German offensive halted, they once again returned to England to prepare for the next drop. This finally came on March 24, 1945 when the Allies were able to cross the Rhine in a massive combined airborne and river crossing operation, the largest the world has ever seen. Success came quickly on the drop zone and within three days, they embarked on a hectic journey that would take them from the Rhine River all the way to Wismar on the Baltic Sea by May 2nd, where they linked up with Russian forces. This historic meeting signified the end of the war in Europe. The Battalion then had the honour of being the first Canadian unit to return to Canada as a complete group. They landed in Halifax to a tumultuous welcome and were awarded the key to the city. Follow their arduous and often hilarious journey and discover why they joined up, what the parachute training was like, especially their first jump, what it was like jumping into action for the first time in Normandy, the conditions in the Ardennes, crossing the Rhine and the fateful trek to Wismar to end the war. It's all here, in their own words.
Author : Peter Harclerode
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000127031320
"Brigadier James Hillis recognised in Airborne circles as a founding father of the Parachute Regiment, but his story has not been told until now. ... An early Airborne Forces volunteer, he joined 1st Parachute Battalion as second-in-command in May 1942. In October by now in command, he took the battalion to North Africa where he earned his first DSO. Badly wounded, he was evacuated back to Britain where he assumed command of the newly formed 9th Parachute Battlion in early 1943. Promoted to brigadier, he formed 3rd Parachute Brigade, which he commanded throughout the Normandy campaign. Wounded twice, he earned a bar to his DSO. Hill and his brigade returned with 6th Airborne Division to England in September 1944 before fighting in the winter Battle of the Bulge. In March 1945, 3rd Parachute Brigade played a key role in the Rhine Crossing, and led the advance to the Baltic in a race against time to block the Russian advance on Denmark. For these and other ... achievements Hill received a second bar to his DSO, the US Silver Star and King Haakon VIII of Norway's Liberty Cross. ..."--Jacket.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9781563114083
Author : General Sir Mike Jackson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448153824
General Sir Mike Jackson's illustrious career in the British Army has spanned almost 45 years and all that time he has shown loyalty, courage and commitment to the British army whilst also being an undeniable media attraction. A man of substance where foreign policy is concerned, he has served in theatres from the Artic to the jungle but is perhaps best known for his role in charge of the British troops to end ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, for assembling the British ground component of the coalition that toppled the Taliban, for equipping and organising the army we dispatched to defeat in Iraq and for re-organising the British army with aplomb. His drive, enthusiasm and dominating personality were always popular with his soldiers and drove him right to the top of his profession. He may have been a general but he never stopped caring about the men and women in his charge, despite the politics. Soldier: The Autobiography exhibits all the qualities for which Jackson is admired; his professionalism, his honesty, his directness, his exuberance and his sense of humour. Most of all it gives a vivid sense of what modern soldiering entails.
Author : Hilary St. George Saunders MC
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786259257
They were no ordinary soldiers. Their battlefields were behind enemy lines. They dropped silently from the sky, bringing messages of death and destruction. Lightly armed, unsupported by tanks and heavy artillery, they fought time after time against overwhelming odds—and won. This is the story of Arnhem, Bruneval, the Ardennes, Normandy, the crossing of the Rhine. It is the story of the Red Devils, the most heroic band of daredevils any war has ever produced. This is the story of the Parachute Regiment, of the officers, non-commissioned officers and men, drawn from almost every unit of the British Army, who volunteered to reach the field of battle by a novel and unique method. They were the first to wear the Red Beret, and to earn for themselves the name of the ‘Red Devils’, bestowed upon them in North Africa by an enemy who had good cause to fear their prowess. They were not, however, the only members of the British Army to wear this distinguished headgear. Those who dropped with them belonging to the Royal Engineers, the Royal Artillery, the Royal Corps of Signals, the Royal Army Service Corps and the Royal Army Medical Corps and those who went to battle in gliders also wore it and added lustre to its fame. Their story will, I hope, one day be told, when the facts have been collected and are available.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Tactics
ISBN : UCAL:$B308095
Author : John A. Willes,1st Canadian Parachute Battalion Association
Publisher : Canada : 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion Association
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0969928505
Author : G.G. Norton
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1984-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780436315251
From Bruneval to North Africa, from Normandy to Suez, by parachute and glider the men of the Airborne Forces have gone by air to battle. But their activities have by no means been confined to purely airborne operations- the Special Air Service performed prodigies of valor behind the German Lines in the Western Desert and Italy; the Glider Pilot Regiment fought beside their infantry comrades in Normandy, at Arnhem and across the Rhine. Their post-war successors, maintaining these traditions, have stood between Jew and Arab in Palistine; fought and sweltered in the jungles of Malaya and Borneo; sweated in the Persian Gulf and the Radfan; chocked on the summer dust of Cypriot roads; tasted the grit and sand of Egypt and Jordan in their mess mess tins; spent more then a decade facing terrorist ambush, bombs and bullets in Northern Ireland; experienced subzero temperatures and biting arctic winds in the South Atlantic and 'tabbed' across the Falklands to spearhead victory in 1982. Now should the aircrews who flew them be forgotten, or the air supply dispatches who maintained them, or the units who supported them. With well over 100 photographs and illustrations this book is a comprehensive single-volume history of the Airborne Forces. Accounts are given of the airborne actions fought by the British Army, whilst the development of the parachute assault and the use of the glider-borne troops can be followed from their infancy to the massive coup de main technique employed in the Rhine crossing.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113747914
Author : Gilberto Villahermosa
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473847118
A retired U.S. Army Master Parachutist, strategist, and military historian analyzes the actions of one German special forces group during World War II. In June 1944, Allied forces fighting desperately to establish a foothold in Normandy and then breakout of the confining bocage found themselves opposed by a bewildering array of formations of the German Wehrmacht. Among them were the newly formed German II Parachute Corps. This gripping new account examines the exploits of Germany’s II Parachute Corps and its commander, Eugen Meindl, from the Allied invasion on June 6 to the end of August 1944. Meindl was the epitome of the senior German airborne commander in the Second World War. Tough, experienced, and aggressive, he cared deeply for his troops. His Parachute Corps fought stubbornly for three weeks, before being forced to fall back. Trapped along with the bulk of the German Seventh Army in the Falaise pocket, Meindl and his paratroopers maintained their discipline and were selected by the Commander in Chief of OB West to lead the German breakout to the east. That they managed to do so, despite suffering grievous losses, while so many around them died or surrendered, is a testament to their dedication and fighting ability. Theirs is a story that deserves to be told.
