The First Men in: US Paratroopers and the Fight to Save D-Day by Ed Ruggero

The First Men in: US Paratroopers and the Fight to Save D-Day

Ed Ruggero

349 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history emotional medium-paced
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Of the nearly 15,000 Allied paratroopers dropped into France on D-14 (two weeks before D-Day), only one regiment--the 3,000 men of the 505 Parachute Infantry--had been tested in battle, and so they were given the toughest mission. For a few critic...

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