| Vignettes by Harold E Gerrish Jr. Everybody has heard of THE D-DAY, but how many know of the 5 d-days preceding it and of which German General, “Smiling Albert” Kesselring later told interviewers that if we hadn’t pitted our strength against him at Anzio, we would never have landed in Normandy. When your enemy speaks of you in this manner, there is no higher compliment. Here in eighty pages with thirty pictures is the story of some twenty or so months of the existence of LCT (5) Flotilla 10, and its role with the U. S. Naval Amphibious operations in the Mediterranean, not from someone mulling through combat reports, but as it was seen with the integrity and innocence of a teenager, right out of high school, who had never been more than eighty miles from home. You will find this excellent coffee-table book as accurate an account as ever came out of that theater of operations. $15.00 |
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