D-Day With the Screaming Eagles

by Koskimaki, George

• ISBN13: 9781932033021
• ISBN10: 1932033025
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc

Summary

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 eye-witness detail.

Participants range from division command personnel to regimental, battalion, company and battery commanders; from chaplains, surgeons and enlisted medics to platoon sergeants, squad leaders and the rough, tough troopers who adapted quickly to fighting in mixed, unfamiliar groups after a badly scattered drop - and yet managed to gain the objectives set for them in the hedgerow country of Normandy.

This book is primary source material. It is a "must read" for anyone with an interest in the Normandy landings, the 101st Airborne and World War II in general. Hearing the soldiers speak is an entirely different experience from reading about the action in a narrative history.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Gerald J. Higgins
Major General
Introduction	1	(4)
The Marshaling Area	5	(18)
The Pathfinders Lead the Way	23	(16)
The Flight Across	39	(8)
Bill Lee --- Geronimo---Let's Go!	47	(12)
Out of the Night Sky	59	(12)
Into the Midst of the Enemy	71	(10)
Early Encounters	81	(10)
Assembly	91	(10)
Johnson's Regiment --- the 501st	101	(30)
So Few Led By so Many	131	(22)
The Five--O--Deuce	153	(42)
The Scattered Artillerymen	195	(18)
The 506th Regiment	213	(28)
Hold Those Bridges!	241	(16)
The Glider Lifts	257	(24)
Angels of Mercy	281	(28)
At Day's End	309	(4)
The French Were Waiting	313	(14)
Notes	327	(14)
Contributors	341	(13)
Acknowledgments	354	(2)
Bibliography	356