"A truly amazing
compendium" – Gerald J. Higgins, Major-General, US Army (Retd), from the book’s
foreword
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.
George Koskimaki was part of the 101st Airborne’s daring parachute
landing into occupied France that day. Now, drawing on more
than five hundred firsthand accounts, including the never-before-published
experiences of the trailblazing pathfinders and glider men, Koskimaki re-creates
those critical hours in all their ferocity and terror. Told by those who
ultimately prevailed, ordinary Americans who faced an extraordinary challenge,
D-Day with the Screaming Eagles is the real history of that climactic struggle
beyond the beachhead.
