All American, All the Way: A Combat History of the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II: From Market Garden to BerlinVoyageur Press, 10 nov 2010 - 432 pagina's On Sunday, September 17, 1944, the 82nd Airborne Division jumped into history with the First Allied Airborne Army in a daring daylight parachute and glider-borne assault to capture key bridges at the start of Operation Market Garden. Following weeks of heavy combat in Holland, the All Americans (the name of the division in World War I when Sgt. Alvin York was one of its soldiers) were withdrawn from the frontlines for a well-deserved rest, which was almost immediately interrupted by the Battle of the Bulge, where they once again found themselves in the thick of the action, a position that remained familiar to them for the rest of the war. Following VE Day, the 82nd became part of the Allied forces occupying Berlin. |
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Chapter 3 Situation Well in Hand | 39 |
Chapter 4 Weve Come a Long Way Tell the Boys to Do a Good Job | 60 |
Chapter 5 The Nijmegen Bridge Must Be Taken Today At the Latest Tomorrow | 82 |
Chapter 6 A Day Unprecedented in the Divisions Combat History | 101 |
Chapter 7 I Have Never Seen a More Gallant Action | 119 |
Chapter 8 The Finest Division in the World Today | 137 |
Chapter 12 Sort Out the Battlefield and Tidy Up the Lines | 227 |
Chapter 13 Well Colonel the Old Guys Got It Today | 250 |
Chapter 14 Sir Theyre All Dead | 273 |
Chapter 15 Surrender Hell | 292 |
Chapter 16 The Closest to Hell One Could Get Without Entering the Gates | 310 |
Chapter 17 Refugees from the Law of Averages | 330 |
Chapter 18 You Wonder What Happens to a Magnificent Division of Brave Men after the War | 351 |
Notes | 371 |
Chapter 9 Im Sure Glad You Bastards Are Here | 156 |
Chapter 10 Lets Get the Sons of Bitches | 180 |
Chapter 11 Im the 82nd Airborne and This Is as Far as the Bastards Are Going | 203 |
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