GLIDER COMMENTARIES, Vol. 2 A Fort Benning Monograph

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GLIDER COMMENTARIES, Vol. 2 A Fort Benning Monograph, edited and annotated by Roger R. Reynolds

Size: 8.5″ x 11″
Illustrations: approximately 545 maps, illustrations, and photographs.
Pages: 148 pages
Price: $25

These two volumes are army studies of small scale operations of US glider troops in WWII. This volume includes:
1.) Operations of Company G, 187th Glider Infantry (11th Airborne Division) in the breakthrough to the Ormoc Corridor, 22-23 December 1944.
2.) Operations of the Los Banos Force,1st Battalion, 511th Parachute Infantry and 1st Battalion, 188th Glider Infantry .
3.) Operations of thee 17^th Airborne Division in the Crossing of the Rhine River, 24 March 1945, Operation Varsity.
4.) Operations of Company G, 187^th Glider Infantry Regiment, 11^th Airborne Division, in the Attack on Nicolas Field, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 13-15 February 1945.
5.) Operations of the 1^st Platoon, Company B, 401^st Glider Infantry, 101^st Airborne Division, in the Battle of Bastogne, Belgium, 25 December 1944.|
6.) Operations of the 82^nd Airborne Division Artillery, 82^nd Airborne Division, in the Airborne Landings near Ste., Mere Eglise, France, 6-8 June 1944.