Birth of a Regiment: The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Sicily and Salerno ww2 art skill and steadfastness among a

skill and steadfastness among a tight-knit band of brothers

Agar slipped past a series of forts

as well as the dozens of smaller engagements where the supporters of the Houses of York and Lancaster fought and died

Their heroics that summer would go down in history

Birth of a Regiment: The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Sicily and Salerno ww2 art skill and steadfastness among aIn the campaign history of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Birth of a Regiment is an authoritative, action packed account of the 504ths seminal role in Sicily and Italy, the first two U. S. airborne drops in the European Theater of Operations. Drawing on hundreds of eye witness testimonies, Frank van Lunteren puts readers at the scene of historic battles as described in the words of the men who fought them. New archival sources in English,