Combat Jump The Young Men Who Led the Assault into Fortress Europe, July 1943

Name: Combat Jump The Young Men Who Led the Assault into Fortress Europe, July 1943
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ISBN: 9780060088767

ISBN-10: 0060088761

ISBN-13: 9780060088767

Edition: 2003

Authors: Ed Ruggero

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Combat Jump is the exciting story of valiant citizen soldiers who risked their lives during the dramatic paratrooper invasion of Sicily in July 1943 that set the stage for the ground troop invasion of Fortress Europe. The hair-raising, frontline account of the first American airborne invasion of World War II and of the young paratroopers who risked their lives for freedom. By 1943, the war in Europe had reached a turning point. General Dwight Eisenhower was given orders to invade Sicily and head north. To achieve this, Ike had a new weapon: U.S. paratroopers. Their mission was to seize the approaches to the invasion beaches and to hold off German attacks. Combat Jump tells the…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 7/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Prologue



In Theory



From Every Corner of the Land



The Oh-Five



The All-Americans



Two Steps Back



The Hour Upon Them



Dove Palermo? Dove Siracusa?



Small Battles



Wrong Place, Right Fight



The Road to Gela



Landings



Mission First



Seventy-Two Hours



A New Mission



Desperate Hours



"It was a Good Fight"


Epilogue


Author's Note


Casualty List


Endnotes


Works Cited


Acknowledgments


Index