507th Parachute Infantry Regiment - 1942-1945

Text in French and English.

Part of the American 82nd Airborne Division, the 507th Parachute Regiment was given the crucial task in the 1944 D-Day Operations of establishing a defensive front west of the River Merderet and was involved in the fierce battle for the La Fiere causeway. This book draws upon numerous veteran eye-witness accounts and takes us from Normandy to the Ardennes and across the Rhine into the Ruhr pocket, and from there to the end of the war. *Unique photographic content from WW2 archieves and veterans' personal collections. *Fully illustrated in full colour and black and white: archive WW2 photographs, modern day photographs, maps and cartoons. *Bi-lingual text in English and French concentrates on the individual men who made up the 507th.