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Date Posted: 05:48:19 06/20/15 Sat
Author: J. B. Wells
Subject: 2 New 82nd Books (2015)

Here are two of the latest books on the 82nd Airborne:


"The 82nd Airborne Division: A Photographic History Volume 1: Training, Sicily, Salerno, Anzio"
Author: Phil Nordyke.

With 450 historic images, some never before published, this book is a visual journey that chronicles the legendary 82nd Airborne Division from its training in the United States, preparation for combat in Morocco and Tunisia, through spearheading the invasion of Sicily in the United States Army’s first mass parachute assault, saving the beachhead at Salerno, fighting in the mountains of Italy, and the brutal combat at Anzio.

This book is long overdue as it is the first quality book that fills a "gap" in the much overlooked history of the 82nd Airborne -- the 3 campaings in the M.T.O. (Mediterranean Theater of Operations), July 1943 - March 1944.

The only complaint is that each chapter really should have been a book in and of itself (for instance, anyone who has ever seen the North Africa photo archive in the 82nd Museum at Ft. Bragg knows that this "chapter" contains enough pix for an 82nd North Africa book ~ and that's not even counting the copious B&W as well as COLOR photos Robert Capa took of the 82nd in Tunisia just before they flew to Sicily [where Capa subsequently proceeded to photograph the 82nd, continuing all the way to Naples, Italy, Oct. 1943!!!])

Anyway, this sorely-needed publication is a most welcome start -- the book (30 May 2015) is currently available online at Amazon.com. Better yet:

You can order a signed edition of this book and others written by Phil Nordyke by downloading a form (word or pdf) at: http://www.505rct.org/contents.asp.

It will give you the author's contact details [Phil Nordyke, if you read this, please see my previous post on this forum, esp. in ref. to the alleged new WWII Gavin bios being written -- maybe you are also doing one on Slim Jim???....]

Hopefully this latest Nordyke publication will be an impetus for others [De Trez?] to do the most comprehensive and detailed photographic record of the 82nd Airborne's "forgotten" campaigns.

Again, anyone reading this who wishes to pursue these projects, contact Richard Whelan and/or Cornell Capa etc. at the International Center of Photography in NYC and inquire about Robert Capa's B&W as well as COLOR photos, perhaps also 8mm FILM clips (?) of the 82nd Airborne in Tunisia, Sicily, and mainland Italy, July-Oct. 1943.

It is regrettable that [some of] Capa's photos are also at Magnum in NYC (yes, he co-created that...), because those people are usually only interested in extracting gargantuan sums of hard-earned money out of anyone who wants to use historical photos [sorry to all you sheister lawyer types, but Capa recorded historical images -- not specially set-up photo sessions -- that are by definition in the public domain!!!]

The US Army Military History Institute (USAHEC) at Carlisle Barracks, PA, the US National Archives II at College Park, MD, and the 82nd Airborne Museum at Ft. Bragg, NC are examples of other places where more photos can be obtained.

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"They Are Only Gone If They Are Forgotten"
Author: Steven Robert Zaley.

A story of one of the original companies with the 82nd Airborne Divisions, 505th Regimental Combat Team. The Parachute Infantry's third battalion, headquarters company, 1942 - 1945. The author is the son of 505 Parachute Infantry paratrooper Stephen Zaley.

The book is currently available online in digital form only. Go to the above 505 PIR site to purchase.

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Future Book:

Dutch 82nd Historian Jan Bos (author of the 376th book) has been working on a book about the US Cemetary at Gela, Sicily -- where the 82nd's first combat casualties were buried in the sizzling summer of 1943. You'd have to contact him to find out more.

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Know of other 82nd books in the works? Let us know...

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