Frank Van Lunteren: 3 books
The Battle of the Bridges
The 504 Parachute Infantry Regiment in Operation Market Garden
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Operation Market Garden has been recorded as a complete Allied failure in World War II, an overreach that resulted in an entire airborne division being destroyed at its apex. However, within that operation were episodes of heroism that still remain unsung.
On September, 17, 1944, the 504th...
Blocking Kampfgruppe Peiper
The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the Battle of the Bulge
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
In December 1944 an enormous German army group crashed through the thin American line in the Ardennes forest. Caught by surprise, the Allies were initially only able to throw two divisions of paratroopers to buttress the collapse—the 82nd Airborne, which was rushed to the area of St. Vith, and the...
Spearhead of the Fifth Army
The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Italy, from the Winter Line to Anzio
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Upon the completion of the Sicily and Salerno Campaigns in 1943, the paratroopers of Colonel Reuben Tucker’s 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment were among the first Allied troops to enter Naples. A ghost town at first sight, the residents soon expressed their joy at being liberated. Four weeks later...