Shiroku "Whitey" Yamamoto
442nd Antitank Company
442nd Antitank Company
Glider Training and D-Day Invasion
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.
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