D-Day with the Screaming Eagles

Many professional historians have recorded the actions of D-Day but here is an account of the airborne actions as described by the actual men themselves in eyewitness detail. Participants range from division command personnel to regimental, battalion, company and battery commanders to chaplains, surgeons, enlisted medics, platoon sergeants, squad leaders and the rough, tough troopers who adapted quickly to fighting in mixed, unfamiliar groups after a badly scattered drop - and yet managed to gain the objectives set for them in the hedgerow country of Normandy. D-Day with the Screaming Eagles does not attempt to glamorise the D-Day landings or apply the Hollywood gloss of recent productions. Koskimaki has interviewed thousands of veterans over many years of researching and writing about the Screaming Eagles; this book stands as a faithful record of what it was like to land on the Normandy beaches.