Why Did the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division Gain a Reputation as a Unit Feared in Sicily and France?
Автор: Forgotten Battles
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They fell from the sky at night, scattered across enemy territory and... started attacking. The 82nd Airborne Division turned chaos into a weapon: when their planes burned over Sicily and paratroopers landed 60 kilometers from their targets, the Germans thought they'd won—but that's when the real nightmare began. The story of an elite unit that lost twice as many men as its original strength, yet made the Wehrmacht fear the sound of parachutes and the click of metal crickets in the darkness. From the disaster over Sicily to the assault on Normandy—how scattered groups of "All Americans" stopped SS tank divisions with bare hands, held bridges under hellish fire, and earned a reputation that made Italians surrender in entire battalions while German Eastern Front veterans wrote in their reports: "Against them, you can only die or surrender."
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