Glider infantryman : behind enemy lines in World War II /
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 ""Batt...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
2011.
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| ISBN: | 9781603445290 1603445293 1299052754 9781299052758 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 tr. |
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| Item Description: | OldControl:muse9781603445290. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ;
no. 136. |
| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |