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On 22 january , megellas and the rest of the 504th landed across the beach at anziomegellas was the most decorated officer of the 82d airborne division and saw more action during the war than mostin 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 gardenin october , when most of the 82d departed italy to prepare for the d-day invasion of france, lthis first taste of combat was in the rugged mountains outside naplesnot until april were the remnants of the regiment withdrawn and shipped to england to recover, reorganize, refit, and train for their next missionthroughout his narrative, he skillfully interweaves stories of the other paratroopers of h company, 504th parachute infantry regimentoxfam 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 durationthe result is a remarkable account of men at waranzio turned into a fiasco, one of the bloodiest allied operations of the warmark 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 romemonths of hard combat in holland were followed by the battle of the bulge, and the long hard road across germany to berlinfollowing 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 seayet all the way to berlin is more than just maggie's world war ii memoirsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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