Shiroku "Whitey" Yamamoto
442nd Antitank Company

Glider Training and D-Day Invasion

Shiroku

The Antitank Company is detached from the 442nd RCT and trained to be glider infantry. After two weeks of tactical glider training near Rome, they participate in the D-Day invasion of southern France.

"Operation Dragoon" commences on August 15, 1944. With paratroopers securing fields for landing, 44 gliders make the dangerous attempt to land.

Their mission: hold the area until seaborne troops relieve them.