A detailed account of the role of the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division during the Battle of the Bulge focuses on the vicious fighting that occurred during the German attempt to seize Ba
September 17, 1944. Thousands of Screaming Eagles–101st Airborne Division paratroopers–descend from the sky over Holland, dropping deep behind German lines in a daring daylight mission to seize and se
This is a reprint of the original 1994 edition in which Koskimaki incorporates contributions by 530 soldiers who were on the ground or in the air for the defense of Bastogne. Koskimaki's is the first
“A TRULY AMAZING COMPENDIUM.”–Gerald J. Higgins, major general, U.S. Army (ret.), from the ForewordIn the predawn darkness of D-Day, an elite fighting force struck the first blows against Hitler’s For
Koskimaki, a World War II veteran who parachuted into Normandy during the D-Day invasion with the 101st Airborne Division, offers a "You were there" account of the 101st's participation in the war's H
Kosmikaki, a paratrooper who parachuted into Normandy on D-Day and later a historian for the 101st Airborne Division, interviewed a variety of participants--from division command to the paratroopers t
Author Bowen was drafted into the 401st Glider Infantry of the 101st Airborne Division. He was wounded during the Normandy campaign, then continued fighting in Holland and the Ardennes, where he was c
