504th
List 504th
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On 22 january , megellas and the rest of the 504th landed across the beach at anziothroughout his narrative, he skillfully interweaves stories of the other paratroopers of h company, 504th parachute infantry regimentmark clark, the fifth army commander, requested that the division's 504th parachute infantry regiment, maggie's outfit, stay behind for a daring new operation that would outflank the nazis' stubborn defensive lines and open the road to romeoxfam shop ross-on-wye in mid- james megellas, known as "maggie" to his fellow paratroopers, joined the 82d airborne division, his new "home" for the durationanzio turned into a fiasco, one of the bloodiest allied operations of the waryet all the way to berlin is more than just maggie's world war ii memoirmegellas was the most decorated officer of the 82d airborne division and saw more action during the war than mostsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehis first taste of combat was in the rugged mountains outside naplesthe result is a remarkable account of men at warnot until april were the remnants of the regiment withdrawn and shipped to england to recover, reorganize, refit, and train for their next missionfollowing initial success, fifth army's amphibious assault, operation shingle, bogged down in the face of heavy german counterattacks that threatened to drive the allies into the tyrrhenian seamonths of hard combat in holland were followed by the battle of the bulge, and the long hard road across germany to berlinin october , when most of the 82d departed italy to prepare for the d-day invasion of france, ltin september, megellas parachuted into holland along with the rest of the 82d airborne as part of another star-crossed mission, field marshal montgomery's vainglorious operation market garden
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