
Descending from the Clouds
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A writer, editor, and translator, Gayle Wurst obtained her PhD in English from the University of Geneva, taught American literature at universities in Switzerland and France for sixteen years, and was a visiting scholar at Princeton University and Harvard University. She now operates Princeton International Agency for the Arts, LLC, a literary agency with a special interest in memoirs, oral history, and military history.
Content
- Cover Page
- Praise for Descending from the Clouds
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Enlistment and Premobilization Training, 112th Infantry, Pennsylvania Army National Guard
- Chapter 2: Mobilization, Basic, and Small Unit Training
- Chapter 3: Company, Battalion, Regimental, and First Army Maneuvers, 1941
- Chapter 4: Units in Turmoil: Pearl Harbor, Southern Training Camps, and War-time Expansion
- Chapter 5: From the 112th Infantry to Parachute School, Fort Benning
- Chapter 6: First Assignment: 507 Parachute Infantry Regiment
- Chapter 7: Second Assignment: Cadre, 513 Parachute Infantry Regiment
- Volunteering for Overseas Duty
- Chapter 8: French Morocco: Fifth Army Mines and Demolition School
- Chapter 9: Permanent Assignment: Company F, 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment
- the Move to Sicily
- Chapter 10: First Combat Jump: Salerno, Italy 73
- Chapter 11: Baptism by Fire: The Battle of Arnone 83
- Chapter 12: A City Torn by War: Duty and Bombings in Naples
- Chapter 13: Cookstown and Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Chapter 14: Camp Quorn, England 105
- Chapter 15: D-Day, Normandy: Preparations for the Big Jump
- Chapter 16: D-Day Jump: The Defense of Ste. Mère-Eglise
- Chapter 17: Patrols and Hedgerow Battles: From Neuville-au-Plain and Le Ham to St. Sauveur-le-Vicomte
- Chapter 18: Long Days in Normandy: The Battle of St. Sauveur-le-Vicomte, the Bois de Limors, and Hill 131
- Chapter 19: As Close to Home as it Gets: Return to Camp Quorn
- Chapter 20: Market-Garden: The Combat Jump at Groesbeek and Entry into Nijmegen
- Chapter 21: Nijmegen: The Battle for Hunner Park and Control of the South End of the Highway Bridge
- Chapter 22: Aftermath: Hunner Park and Bridge Security
- Chapter 23: Defensive Operations: Road Blocks, Dikes, and the End of the Holland Mission
- Chapter 24: The Ardennes Campaign: From Camp Suippes, France, to Trois Ponts, Belgium
- Chapter 25: From the Battle of the Bulge to the Hurtgen Forest, Germany
- Chapter 26: The End in Sight: Through the Siegfried Line to the Roer River
- Epilogue: Homeward Bound
- Image Gallery
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright Page
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