Four Hours of Fury - The 17th Airborne in the Rhine Crossing 1945

Описание: Four Hours of Fury - The 17th Airborne in the Rhine Crossing 1945
With James Fenelon
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Our guest today is James Fenelon https://www.jamesfenelon.com/. James is the paratrooper-turned-author of Four Hours of Fury, the untold story of Operation Varsity, the American 17th Airborne Division’s combat jump over the Rhine River in March 1945. Prior to penning the book. He served for over a decade and is a graduate of the US Army’s Airborne, Jumpmaster and Pathfinder schools.

On the morning of March 24, 1945, more than two thousand Allied aircraft droned through a cloudless sky toward Germany. Escorted by swarms of darting fighters, the armada of transport planes carried 17,000 troops to be dropped, via parachute and glider, on the far banks of the Rhine River. Four hours later, after what was the war's largest airdrop, all major objectives had been seized. The invasion smashed Germany's last line of defense and gutted Hitler's war machine; the war in Europe ended less than two months later. James will talk about this operation and the research process for hos book.

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