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In this important and comprehensive study, distinguished military historian E.M. Flanagan retells the dramatic and illustrious history of America's elite airborne forces. The United States Army's experiment with airborne forces started at Fort Benning, Georgia, in early 1940, with a single platoon of paratroopers. From this tiny seed grew the mighty American airborne legion that spearheaded America's attack against Nazi Germany in Sicily and Normandy, and went on to fight with distinction in Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf War.
