Birth of a Regiment: The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Sicily and Salerno ww2 art inflicted on the British the

inflicted on the British the worst defeat a modern army has ever suffered at the hands of men without guns

Using audio material from the Imperial War Museum and previously unseen material from Reg’s collection of notebooks and handwritten accounts of operations

It includes 12 specifically designed maps and 30 rarely seen photographs of the battle and the battle area

skill and steadfastness among a tight-knit band of brothers

as well as the dozens of smaller engagements where the supporters of the Houses of York and Lancaster fought and died

Birth of a Regiment: The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Sicily and Salerno ww2 art inflicted on the British theIn the campaign history of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Birth of a Regiment is an authoritative, action packed account of the 504ths seminal role in Sicily and Italy, the first two U. S. airborne drops in the European Theater of Operations. Drawing on hundreds of eye witness testimonies, Frank van Lunteren puts readers at the scene of historic battles as described in the words of the men who fought them. New archival sources in English,