A site is about the 6th Airborne Division in Normandy, from D-Day to the end of the three month campaign. Contains several hundred pages and photos, and many veterans accounts.
Normandy Allies is a non-profit organization created to perpetuate the memory of the sacrifices and contributions made by American military forces together with the other Allied forces and the people of Normandy as they strove to liberate this historic region of France from the Nazis in 1944 during World War II.
More than 60 years after the events of the Summer 1944, the DDay-Overlord.com web site allows you to discover one of the most important military operation of all the Second World War : the Normandy landing and the Battle of Normandy.
In 1990, Bob Murray, former member of B Company 508th ARCT recognized there was a need for an organization of former Red Devils who had served with the 508th or any of it's attached units since it's organization in October 1942. As a result the 508th Airborne Chapter was formed and chartered as a Chapter of the 82nd Airborne Division Association.
Into The Valley is the story of USAAF Troop Carrier in World War II, by Col. Charles H. Young, war-time commander of the 439th TC Group. This 616-page book contains first-hand accounts of the airborne assault missions that spearheaded the invasions of Normandy, Holland, North Africa, Sicily, Southern France and the Rhine River crossing into Germany.
The memoir of this Screaming Eagle paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division puts you on the front lines. From the predawn jump at Normandy to the Allied occupation after the war, Layton Black tells it as he experienced it. Sadness and joy march step for step with the front-line soldiers of World War II.
This website was created by WW2 historian Mark Bando, who is solely responsible for its contents. Most of the photos and artifacts shown are from his personal collection and the layout and writing are his unless otherwise noted.
This website is dedicated to all the young U.S. Army soldiers who fought the largest and hardest battles of WW2. Alive or deceased, killed in action or not, they shall never be forgotten!!