Henry Langrehr
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
[x], 272 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Description
"Now at 95, one of the few living members of the Greatest Generation shares his experiences at last in one of the most remarkable World War II stories ever told. As the Allied Invasion of Normandy launched in the pre-dawn hours of June 6, 1944, Henry Langrehr, an American paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne, was among the thousands of Allies who parachuted into occupied France. Surviving heavy anti-aircraft fire, he crashed through the glass roof of...