LEADER 04071nam 2200625 450 001 9910819510603321 005 20230721043128.0 010 $a1-5040-2184-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000588423 035 $a(EBL)4338036 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001625527 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16362442 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001625527 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14930961 035 $a(PQKB)11335644 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4338036 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4338036 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11154744 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL895928 035 $a(OCoLC)938003425 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000588423 100 $a20160612h20072007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDescending from the clouds $ea memoir of combat in the 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division /$fSpencer F. Wurst and Gayle Wurst 210 1$a[New York, New York] :$cCasemate Publishing,$d2007. 210 2$aNew York, New York :$cOpen Road Distribution,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2007 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 327 $aCover 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 327 $aChapter 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 327 $aChapter 16: D-Day Jump: The Defense of Ste. Me?re-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 327 $aChapter 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 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCampaigns$zWestern Front 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, American 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xRegimental histories$zUnited States 606 $aSoldiers$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCampaigns 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xRegimental histories 615 0$aSoldiers 676 $a940.548173 700 $aWurst$b Spencer F$g(Spencer Free),$01661150 702 $aWurst$b Gayle 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819510603321 996 $aDescending from the clouds$94016905 997 $aUNINA