D-Day with the Screaming Eagles

Many professional historians have recorded the actions of D-Day but here is an account of the airborne actions as described by the actual men themselves in eyewitness detail. Participants range from division command personnel to regimental, battalion, company and battery commanders to chaplains, surgeons, enlisted medics, platoon sergeants, squad leaders and the rough, tough troopers who adapted quickly to fighting in mixed, unfamiliar groups after a badly scattered drop - and yet managed to gain the objectives set for them in the hedgerow country of Normandy. This book is primary source material. It is a "must read" for anyone interested in the Normandy landings, the 101st Airborne Division and World War ll in general. Hearing the soldiers speak is an entirely different experience from reading about the action in a narrative history.Table of ContentsForeword by Gerald J. Higgins, Major General, U.S. Army, Ret.Introduction1. The Marshaling Area2. The Pathfinders Lead the Way3. The Flight Across4. Bill Lee — Geronimo — Let’s Go!5. Out of the Night Sky6. Into the Midst of the Enemy7. Early Encounters8. Assembly9. Johnson’s Regiment — The 501st10. So Few Led By So Many11. The Five–O–Deuce12. The Scattered Artillerymen13. The 506th Regiment14. Hold Those Bridges!15. The Glider Lifts16. Angels of Mercy17. At Day’s End18. The French Were WaitingNotesContributorsAcknowledgmentsBibliography