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frontline WWII fiction
From Husky to Hell: How Sicily Broke the 82nd Airborne Before Italy Even Began
By the time the 82nd Airborne Division hit Sicily in July 1943, they were already being sold to the public as something close to myth. America’s first airborne division. Volunteers. Paratroopers. The best of the best. That’s the version everyone remembers. The truth is less clean, and far more useful …