Reviews
World War 2 Database , October 2007 "Bob Bearden's To D-Day and Back was not just another paratrooper-themed memoir trying to ride on the success of others. Several distinctions set this work apart from others. Bearden told his story from a very personal angle. Coupled with the use of everyday prose, the book was another one of those works that felt much like storytelling by a member of the family. It was not just another war memoir, but rather, the book told how the war interacted with Bearden's life. "Bearden also had the unfortunate experience of becoming a German prisoner of war merely two days after he jumped into Normandy, France. He faithfully recorded his observations while it came, amidst braving malnutrition and the cold winter. While other authors told the horrors of war through descriptions of exploding shells and flying shrapnel, Bearden completed the picture by telling the horrors of war through experiences of being imprisoned by the Germans ... Indeed, his WW2 experience was a unique and remarkable adventure, recorded in captivating detail in To D-Day and Back.", World War 2 Database , October 2007 “Bob Bearden's To D-Day and Back was not just another paratrooper-themed memoir trying to ride on the success of others. Several distinctions set this work apart from others. Bearden told his story from a very personal angle. Coupled with the use of everyday prose, the book was another one of those works that felt much like storytelling by a member of the family. It was not just another war memoir, but rather, the book told how the war interacted with Bearden's life. “Bearden also had the unfortunate experience of becoming a German prisoner of war merely two days after he jumped into Normandy, France. He faithfully recorded his observations while it came, amidst braving malnutrition and the cold winter. While other authors told the horrors of war through descriptions of exploding shells and flying shrapnel, Bearden completed the picture by telling the horrors of war through experiences of being imprisoned by the Germans & Indeed, his WW2 experience was a unique and remarkable adventure, recorded in captivating detail in To D-Day and Back.�, World War 2 Database,October 2007 "Bob Bearden's To D-Day and Backwas not just another paratrooper-themed memoir trying to ride on the success of others. Several distinctions set this work apart from others. Bearden told his story from a very personal angle. Coupled with the use of everyday prose, the book was another one of those works that felt much like storytelling by a member of the family. It was not just another war memoir, but rather, the book told how the war interacted with Bearden's life. "Bearden also had the unfortunate experience of becoming a German prisoner of war merely two days after he jumped into Normandy, France. He faithfully recorded his observations while it came, amidst braving malnutrition and the cold winter. While other authors told the horrors of war through descriptions of exploding shells and flying shrapnel, Bearden completed the picture by telling the horrors of war through experiences of being imprisoned by the Germans … Indeed, his WW2 experience was a unique and remarkable adventure, recorded in captivating detail in To D-Day and Back.", World War 2 Database , October 2007 "Bob Bearden's To D-Day and Backwas not just another paratrooper-themed memoir trying to ride on the success of others. Several distinctions set this work apart from others. Bearden told his story from a very personal angle. Coupled with the use of everyday prose, the book was another one of those works that felt much like storytelling by a member of the family. It was not just another war memoir, but rather, the book told how the war interacted with Bearden's life. "Bearden also had the unfortunate experience of becoming a German prisoner of war merely two days after he jumped into Normandy, France. He faithfully recorded his observations while it came, amidst braving malnutrition and the cold winter. While other authors told the horrors of war through descriptions of exploding shells and flying shrapnel, Bearden completed the picture by telling the horrors of war through experiences of being imprisoned by the Germans … Indeed, his WW2 experience was a unique and remarkable adventure, recorded in captivating detail in To D-Day and Back."
Table of Content
Table of Contents PART I Doing my bit One Texas National Guard, 144th Infantry Two Parachute School, Fort Benning, Georgia Three 507th Cast of Characters Four Payday Parties Five Training Jumps in a Peanut Patch Six Louisiana Maneuvers, 1943 Seven: Rodeo Jump: Alliance, Nebraska, August 1943 Eight The Jumping Mascot Nine Sedalia, Missouri Jump Ten Taking My Exclusive Furlough to Wyoming Eleven The 507th PIR in Northern Ireland Twelve Jolly Olde England: Fish and Chips, 507th Style PART II D-DAY AND THEBATTLEFORNORMANDY Thirteen D-Day Jump and the Little French Maid Fourteen Assembly Fifteen The Battle for Fresville Sixteen Taylor's Group: Bundle Duty and Ear Injury Seventeen Millett's Group: My Hottest Day of the War Eighteen Avoid Crossing God in Combat Nineteen Patrols and Moving Out Twenty Capture PART III TOURINGEUROPE10TH CLASS: MY LIFE
