They Are Only Gone If They Are Forgotten

A true and unbelievable story about an original company of Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division's, 505th Combat Team, Headquarters Company, Third Battalion from inception in 1942 to demobilization of high time combat forces at the end of World War II. The book follows 122 men through parachute training, to North Africa, parachuting into Sicily ,Italy, Normandy France, Holland and the long push across Central Europe into Germany at the end of the war. The men count heads to try to come up with a number of who is left of the original 122 as they go through disarmament and the long journey stateside back into civilian life. The book totals 643 standard size pages, 320 pages of text 181,600 word count and hundreds of pictures, general orders, after-action reports, combat newspaper articles that places the reader in the era of World War II.