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This review is from: They Jumped at Midnight (Paperback)
This book tells the story of the American Airborne component of the invation of Italy. You see things from both the German and American perspective and are introdused to many of the players from General Mark Clark the commander of the Fifth Army and General James Ridgway commander of the 82nd Airborne Division to William Yarbourough the Exitive officer of the gallent 509th AIB. The author brings you to the Airborne staging areas in Sicily and then to the 82nd's drop onto the beach at Saleano between the Germans and the sea, to releave the US VI Corps. You are taken along as the 509th are droped behind enemy lines to disrupt German communications and delay reenforcements rushing to the invation site via hit and run raids while trying to survive and evade capture.This book while full of dates, times unit designations and other facts, still manages to read like an adventure story and what an adventure it was! |
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They Jumped at Midnight by William B. Breuer (Paperback - October 1, 1990)
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