Descending from the Clouds : a Memoir of Combat in the 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division

Descending from the Clouds : a Memoir of Combat in the 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division / Wurst, Spencer F.

Wearing the remnants of a WWI uniform and pulling a water-cooled 30-caliber machine-gun, Spencer Wurst marched through his hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1940 as a member of the National Guard. He was 15 years old. Five years later he was a hardened platoon sergeant leading his troopers through...

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Main Author: Wurst, Spencer F.
Other Authors: Wurst, Gayle
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] Open Road Distribution, 2016.
Subjects:
Wurst, Spencer F. > (Spencer Free)
United States. > Army. > Parachute Infantry Regiment, 505th.
United States. > Army > Parachute troops > Biography.
United States. > Army
United States. > Army. > Parachute Infantry Regiment, 505th
1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Western Front.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Regimental histories > United States.
Soldiers > United States > Biography.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Armed Forces > Parachute troops
Military campaigns
Regimental histories
Soldiers
United States
Western Front (World War (1939-1945))
Biographies
Personal narratives > American
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Table of Contents:
  • 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-EgliseChapter 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 MissionChapter 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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