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FRONT COVER: On June 4, for the benefit of the camera Lt Col Robert Wolverton checks his adjutant Lt Alex Bobuck’s equipment. In the background stands the 440th Troop Carrier Group C-47 aircraft 315087 “Lady Lillian,” freshly painted in the black and white recognition stripes. (NARA colorised by Johnny Sirlande) TITLE PAGE: 1st Lt Alex Bobuck (captured) checks a manifest on the morning of Sunday June 4 for the benefit of Signal Corps cameramen. In the background stands C-47 “Lady Lillian” which carried Executive Officer Maj George Grant’s stick to Normandy. (Left to right): Pvt Anthony Wincensiak (KIA), Sgt Tom Newell (captured), Pvt Ray Calandrella (captured), Pvt Jesse Cross (captured), Pvt John Rinehart (KIA), Sgt Bill Pauli (captured), T/5 Jack Harrison (died of wounds), Pfc Harry Howard (captured), T/5 Charles Riley (captured), and S/Sgt John Taormina (captured). (NARA)
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EDITOR’S NOTE
This book contains some material previously published in Tonight We Die As Men, Deliver Us From Darkness and No Victory in Valhalla.