Glider Infantryman: Behind Enemy Lines in World War II (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History)

by Don Rich and Kevin Brooks

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A member of the famed Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, Donald J. Rich went ashore on D-Day at Utah Beach, was wounded in the bloody conflict at Carentan, landed in a flimsy plywood-and-canvas glider on the battlefields of Holland, and survived the grim siege with the ""Battling Bastards of Bastogne"" during the Battle of the Bulge. Glider Infantryman is his eyewitness account of how he, along with thousands of other young men from farms, small towns, and cities across the United States, came together to answer the call of their nation. It is also a heartfelt tribute...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781603449625
  • Publish Date 1 March 2013
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Texas A & M University Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 320
  • Language English