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Index
Cover Page
Praise for Descending from the Clouds
Title Page
Epigraph
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Enlistment and Premobilization Training, 112th Infantry, Pennsylvania Army National Guard
Chapter 2: Mobilization, Basic, and Small Unit Training
Chapter 3: Company, Battalion, Regimental, and First Army Maneuvers, 1941
Chapter 4: Units in Turmoil: Pearl Harbor, Southern Training Camps, and War-time Expansion
Chapter 5: From the 112th Infantry to Parachute School, Fort Benning
Chapter 6: First Assignment: 507 Parachute Infantry Regiment
Chapter 7: Second Assignment: Cadre, 513 Parachute Infantry Regiment; Volunteering for Overseas Duty
Chapter 8: French Morocco: Fifth Army Mines and Demolition School
Chapter 9: Permanent Assignment: Company F, 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment; the Move to Sicily
Chapter 10: First Combat Jump: Salerno, Italy 73
Chapter 11: Baptism by Fire: The Battle of Arnone 83
Chapter 12: A City Torn by War: Duty and Bombings in Naples
Chapter 13: Cookstown and Belfast, Northern Ireland
Chapter 14: Camp Quorn, England 105
Chapter 15: D-Day, Normandy: Preparations for the Big Jump
Chapter 16: D-Day Jump: The Defense of Ste. Mère-Eglise
Chapter 17: Patrols and Hedgerow Battles: From Neuville-au-Plain and Le Ham to St. Sauveur-le-Vicomte
Chapter 18: Long Days in Normandy: The Battle of St. Sauveur-le-Vicomte, the Bois de Limors, and Hill 131
Chapter 19: As Close to Home as it Gets: Return to Camp Quorn
Chapter 20: Market-Garden: The Combat Jump at Groesbeek and Entry into Nijmegen
Chapter 21: Nijmegen: The Battle for Hunner Park and Control of the South End of the Highway Bridge
Chapter 22: Aftermath: Hunner Park and Bridge Security
Chapter 23: Defensive Operations: Road Blocks, Dikes, and the End of the Holland Mission
Chapter 24: The Ardennes Campaign: From Camp Suippes, France, to Trois Ponts, Belgium
Chapter 25: From the Battle of the Bulge to the Hurtgen Forest, Germany
Chapter 26: The End in Sight: Through the Siegfried Line to the Roer River
Epilogue: Homeward Bound
Image Gallery
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Copyright Page
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