The Book: They Are Only Gone If They Are Forgotten

Genre: Military History World War II

Description: This is the story about the original members of the 82^nd Airborne Division’s, 505^th Combat Team, Third Battalion, Headquarters Company from inception in 1942 to the demobilization of high time combat forces at the end of the Second World War. The story follows the men through initial parachute training and how the Combat Team is formed. Being so successful in stateside training the President selects them to become the first division of Paratroopers to enter the war in North Africa. 

This is the story of how the 82nd Airborne Division’s, 505th Combat Team become the only Paratroopers to perform four combat operations behind enemy lines by parachute insertion in Sicily, Italy, France, and Holland. Then; the long ground pushes into Germany, the war ends. In a field, those present count heads to see who made it from the beginning to the end of the line and remember those who paid the ultimate price. Only a hand full of the 122 men from the beginning make it to the end of the Second World War. Those who made it from the beginning to the end of the line were changed forever.

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