Easy 505-PIR – Nijmegen Bridge – 1944
Operations of the 3rd Platoon, Easy Company, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, 1st Allied Airborne Army, during the seizure of the Bridge in Nijmegen, September 19-20, 1944, in Holland. Personal Experience of a Platoon Leader.
Capt John D....
2-AD (TF Stokes) Holland – Sep 1944
By the evening of Sept 15, 1944, Gen Joseph Lawton Collins' XIX Corps had established a bridgehead on the east bank of the Meuse River in the vicinity of Maastricht, Holland. Both, Gen Leland Hobbs' 30th Infantry Division and...
