Bibliograph

Descending from the clouds, a memoir of combat in the 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division, Spencer F. Wurst and Gayle Wurst

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Descending from the clouds, a memoir of combat in the 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division, Spencer F. Wurst and Gayle Wurst

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-260) and index

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autobiography

Illustrations

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Descending from the clouds

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

60749242

Responsibility statement

Spencer F. Wurst and Gayle Wurst

Sub title

a memoir of combat in the 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division

Table Of Contents

Enlistment and premobilization training, 112th infantry, Pennsylvania Army National Guard -- Mobilization, basic, and small unit training -- Company, battalion, regimental, and First Army maneuvers, 1941 -- Units in turmoil: Pearl Harbor, Southern training camps, and war-time expansion -- From the 112th infantry to parachute school, Fort Benning -- First assignment: 507 Parachute Infantry Regiment -- Second assignment: Cadre, 513 Parachute Infantry Regiment; volunteering for overseas duty -- French Morocco: Fifth Army Mines and Demolition School -- Permanent assignment: Company F, 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment; the move to Sicily -- First combat jump: Salerno, Italy -- Baptism by fire: the Battle of Arnone -- A city torn by war: duty and bombings in Naples -- Cookstown and Belfast, Northern Ireland -- Camp Quorn, England -- D-Day, Normandy: preparations for the big jump -- D-Day Jump: the defense of Ste. Mère-Eglise -- Patrols and hedgerow battles: from Neuville-au-Plan and Le Ham to St. Sauveur-le-Vicomte -- Long days in Normandy: the Battle of St. Sauveur-le-Vicomte, the Bois de Limors, and Hill 131 -- As close to home as it gets: return to Camp Quorn -- Market-Garden: the combat jump at Groesbeek and entry into Nijmegen -- Nijmegen: the Battle for Hunner Park and control of the South End of the highway bridge -- Aftermath: Hunner Park and bridge security -- Defensive operations: road blocks, dikes, and the end of the Holland Mission -- The Ardennes Campaign: from Camp Suippes, France, to Trois Ponts, Belgium -- From the Battle of the Bulge to the Hurtgen Forest, Germany -- The end in sight: through the Siegfried Line to the Roer River

Target audience

adult

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Contributor