Silent Wings Savage Death, Alfred Nigl / Charles Nigl

SILENT WINGS SAVAGE DEATH: SAGA OF THE 82TH AIRBORNE'S GLIDER ARTILLERY IN WORLD WAR II.

The book is based on the official unit history of the 319th Glider Field Artillery Battalion, one of two field artillery battalions attached to the famous 82nd Airborne Division. The men of the 319th made two glider assaults during WWII, the first on D Day in Normandy (where almost 20% of the men were killed or injured in the multiple glider crashes behind enemy lines) and the second during the invasion of Holland. 

Contents:

HISTORY OF THE COMBAT GLIDER (The Combat Glider - The Silent Warriors of the Blitzkrieg - German Glider Assaults 1941-1945 - British and Allied Glider Assaults 1942-1945).

UNIT HISTORY OF THE 319TH GLIDER FIELD ARTILLERY BATALLION: ITALY AND NORMANDY INVASIONS.

UNIT HISTORY OF THE 319TH GLIDER FIELD ARTILLERY BATALLION: HOLLAND, BELGIUM, RHINELAND AND BERLIN.

APPENDICES - BIBLIOGRAPHY - INDEX.

Authors: Alfred J. Nigl, Ph.D / Charles A. Nigl, B.Sc

Publisher:   Graphic Publishers (2007)

ISBN: 978-1-8828-24-31-1

Description: 288 pages, Paperback, 275 X 215 mm, b/w photos, maps.

Condition: FINE.

Shipping weight: 1.100 gr.