Band of Brothers
“They were carrying far too much equipment and using an untested technique that turned out to be a major mistake. As they left the plane, the leg bags tore loose and hurtled to the ground, in nearly every case never to be seen again. Simultaneously, the prop blast tossed them this way and that. With all the extra weight and all the extra speed, when the chutes opened, the shock was more than they had ever experienced. Jumping at 500 feet, and even less, they hit the ground within seconds of the ...opening of the chute, so they hit hard. The men were black and blue for a week or more afterward as a result.In a diary entry written a few days later, Lieutenant Winters tried to re-create his thoughts in those few seconds he was in the air: “We’re doing 150 MPH. O.K., let’s go. G-D, there goes my leg pack and every bit of equipment I have. Watch it, boy! Watch it! J-C, they’re trying to pick me up with those machine-guns. Slip, slip, try and keep close to that leg pack. There it lands beside the hedge.MoreLess
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Chye_Stewart 3 years ago
I love this book! This is by far one of my favorite WWII books I've read. For whatever reason I have always been drawn to WWII era books, movies, anything. I love being able to see WWII through the soldiers who lived its eyes.Write Review:
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