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Combat jump : the young men who led the assault into Fortress Europe, July 1943

The hair-raising, frontline account of the first American airborne invasion of World War II and of the young paratroopers who risked their lives for freedom. By 1943, the war in Europe had reached a turning point. General Dwight Eisenhower was given orders to invade Sicily and head north. To achieve this, Ike had a new weapon: U.S. paratroopers. Their mission was to seize the approaches to the invasion beaches and to hold off German attacks.Combat Jump tells the little-known story of these paratroopers and how they changed the American way of war. It takes readers on their.

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