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Tonight we die as men : the untold story of Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment from Toccoa to D-Day / Ian Gardner & Roger Day ; foreword by Ed Shames.
Van Pelt Library D769.348 506th .G37 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gardner, Ian (Historian)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army. Parachute Infantry Regiment, 506th. Battalion, 3rd.
- United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy.
- Physical Description:
- 344 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Osprey, 2009.
- Contents:
- "Hit it - 13 weeks of pain: : creation of the 506th PIR
- "Time, gentlemen, please" : the 506th at Ramsbury, UK
- "Here's to your dog tags" : preparations for D-Day
- "Jump into the fight" : Operation Overlord begins
- "God, let me live 'til morning" : D-Night, part 1
- "For Christ's sake, let's go" : D-Night, part 2
- "A real feeling of victory" : D-Day, June 6, 1944
- "No word from 3rd Battalion, 506th PIR" : D-Day +1
- "A pitiful sight" : D-Day +2
- "Don't shoot, we're Americans" : regrouping and consolidation
- "Still an American paratrooper" : POWs and counterattacks
- "I ain't dead yet" : the Battle of Bloody Gully, June 13, 1944
- "Things are pretty calm right now" : operations on the main line of resistance
- "Go on, Yank, have a drink" : return to Ramsbury.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-335) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1846033225
- 9781846033223
- OCLC:
- 244055518
- Publisher Number:
- 99946494614
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