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OSPREY-VANGUARD 5Philip Katcher—I______RBORNEDIVISION 1942-45\VANGUARD SERIESEDI TOR: MARTIN WINDROWUS 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION 1942-45Text by PHILIP K Osprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45 KATCHER Colour plates by MIKE CHAPPELLOSPREY PUBLISHING LONDONPublished in 1978 by Osprey Publishing Ltd Member company of the George Philip Group 12 14 Long Acre, London WC2E 9LP © Copyright 1978 Osprey Publishing LtdThis book is copyrighted under die Berne Convention. All rights reserved. Apart fr Osprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45 om any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, 1956, no part of this publiOsprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45
cation may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrical, chemical, mechanical, optiOSPREY-VANGUARD 5Philip Katcher—I______RBORNEDIVISION 1942-45\VANGUARD SERIESEDI TOR: MARTIN WINDROWUS 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION 1942-45Text by PHILIP K Osprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45 85045 286 4Filmset by BAS Printers Limited, Over Wallop, Hampshire Printed in Hong KongThe BeginningsIn early 1940 the whole world watched as German paratroopers opened the way for their army into Belgium and Holland. One US soldier who was especially interested in these developments was the Chief Osprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45 of Infantry, who, on 2 January 1940, had been ordered to study paratroopers and airtransported infantry.On 25 June 1940, forty-eight soldiers out of 2Osprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45
00 volunteers from the 29th Infantry Regiment were formed into a Parachute Test Platoon. The fledgling paratroopers began work at Fort Benning, GeorgiOSPREY-VANGUARD 5Philip Katcher—I______RBORNEDIVISION 1942-45\VANGUARD SERIESEDI TOR: MARTIN WINDROWUS 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION 1942-45Text by PHILIP K Osprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45 quely American equipment was developed. The test platoon developed into a company and, in October 1940, the company was named the 501st Parachute Battalion. In February 1941 the 501st participated with the 4th Infantry' Division and 2nd Armored Division in workingout air/ground tactics.The new organ Osprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45 ization quickly caught the publicWinston Churchill shakes hands with divisional sccond-in-command Brigadier-General Don Pratt before his review of theOsprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45
101st on 23 March IQ44. In the background, 1. to r.: General Eisenhower; Brigadier-General Maxwell D. Taylor, divisional commander. Prall was later kOSPREY-VANGUARD 5Philip Katcher—I______RBORNEDIVISION 1942-45\VANGUARD SERIESEDI TOR: MARTIN WINDROWUS 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION 1942-45Text by PHILIP K Osprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45 teers to its ranks. One such volunteer was Edson D. Raff, then an infantry company commander on duty in Hawaii. He wrote his aunt from Fort Benning on 26 June 1941, describing the unit’s training:‘The first pari of the curriculum concentrates on conditioning, calisthenics, and exercises to harden th Osprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45 e muscles; the second teaches techniques in jumping from a plane and manipulating a parachute in the air and on the ground; the third, tower practice,Osprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45
and the fourth, jumps from a plane. Packing and maintenance of chutes is interwoven with the outdoor tasks.’Towards the end of 1941 the 501st and addOSPREY-VANGUARD 5Philip Katcher—I______RBORNEDIVISION 1942-45\VANGUARD SERIESEDI TOR: MARTIN WINDROWUS 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION 1942-45Text by PHILIP K Osprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45 ring command posts, raiding rear areas, destroying bridges and overrunning airfields —much as the Germans had done in actual3combat. Because of their successes the battalions were made full-fledged regiments, each with three battalions, in May 1942. On 16 August 1942 the old 82nd Infantry Division a Osprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45 t Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, was divided; with the new parachute infantry regiments added, it formed two new Airborne Divisions—the 82nd and 101 st. TOsprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45
he 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment remained at Fort Benning until the whole 101 st was brought together in early autumn of 1942 at Fort Bragg, NorthOSPREY-VANGUARD 5Philip Katcher—I______RBORNEDIVISION 1942-45\VANGUARD SERIESEDI TOR: MARTIN WINDROWUS 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION 1942-45Text by PHILIP K Osprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45 but it has a rendezvous with destiny. Like the early American pioneers, whose invincible courage was the foundation stone of this nation, we have broken with the past and its traditions in order to establish our claim to the future.’Training for the new paratroopers volunteers all—was rugged. Recal Osprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45 led Private Donald R. Burgett, 506th Parachute Infantry' Regiment: ‘At no time was a trooper allowed to sit down, lean against anything or stand in aOsprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45
resting attitude when he was outside the confines of his own barracks. Another thing. . . was that at no time was a trooper allowed to walk from one pOSPREY-VANGUARD 5Philip Katcher—I______RBORNEDIVISION 1942-45\VANGUARD SERIESEDI TOR: MARTIN WINDROWUS 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION 1942-45Text by PHILIP K Osprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45 which was supposed to mean ‘hurry, hurry’ in Yiddish. Everything in the airborne was done ‘hubba-hubba’. If it wasn’t, or the instructors weren't satisfied with whatever was done, the offending volunteer was told to do push-ups—25, 50 or even a hundred of them. One of the Division’s regiments, the 5 Osprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45 06th, drew its motto from its daily ‘three-mile run’. Every morning before breakfast the men ran three miles—that is, three miles to Mt Currahee, threOsprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45
e miles up the mountain, three miles down, and three miles back. Then came the regular day’s training.Not only was the training hard physically, it waOSPREY-VANGUARD 5Philip Katcher—I______RBORNEDIVISION 1942-45\VANGUARD SERIESEDI TOR: MARTIN WINDROWUS 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION 1942-45Text by PHILIP K Osprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45 geant got into a jeep, drove out to the two bodies, picked something up and returned to his trainees. ‘Now, does anyone want to quit?’ he asked as he passed around what he picked up. Burgett saw itwas one of the dead ____________ ____t ____ Osprey vanguard 005 US 101 airborne 1942 45 OSPREY-VANGUARD 5Philip Katcher—I______RBORNEDIVISION 1942-45\VANGUARD SERIESEDI TOR: MARTIN WINDROWUS 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION 1942-45Text by PHILIP KGọi ngay
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