Tonight we die as men
the untold story of Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment from Toccoa to D-Day
Gardner, Ian
creator
Day, Roger
1955-
text
enk
Oxford
Long Island City, New York
Osprey
2010
monographic
eng
vii, 344 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Foreword 1 (2)
Ed Shames
Preface 3 (2)
Acknowledgements 5 (3)
Introduction 8 (8)
1 "Hit it - 13 weeks of pain"
Creation of the 506th PIR
16 (16)
2 "Time, gentlemen, please"
The 506th at Ramsbury, UK
32 (39)
3 "Here's to your dog tags"
Preparations for D-Day
71 (32)
4 "Jump into the fight"
Operation Overlord begins
103 (20)
5 "God, let me live `til morning"
D-Night part 1
123 (33)
6 "For Christ's sake, let's go"
D-Night part 2
156 (24)
7 "A real feeling of victory"
D-Day - June 6, 1944
180 (26)
8 "No word from 3rd Battalion, 506th PIR"
D-Day + 1
206 (24)
9 "A pitiful sight"
D-Day + 2
230 (14)
10 "Don't shoot, we're Americans"
Regrouping and consolidation
244 (12)
11 "Still an American paratrooper"
POWs and counterattacks
256 (25)
12 "I ain't dead yet"
The battle of Bloody Gully, June 13, 1944
281 (19)
13 "Things are pretty calm right now"
Operations on the Main Line of Resistance
300 (23)
14 "Go on, Yank, have a drink"
Return to Ramsbury
323 (10)
Epilogue 333 (1)
Bibliography 334 (2)
Index 336
Ian Gardner & Roger Day ; foreword by Ed Shames.
Originally published: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-235) and index.
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United States.
Army.
Parachute Infantry Regiment, 506th.
Battalion, 3rd
History
World War, 1939-1945
Campaigns
France
Normandy
World War, 1939-1945
Aerial operations, American
World War, 1939-1945
Regimental histories
United States
Guerra mundial II, 1939-1945
Campañas
Francia
Guerra mundial II, 1939-1945
Operaciones aéreas
Guerra Mundial II, 1939-1945
Historias de regimientos
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