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30ot6
02-22-2004, 05:52 PM
Looking for combat reports on the 505th's drop in Sicily. I can find various stuff desribing what happened in general, but no detailed maps or pictures. For instance, I know that I-3/505 landed on it's drop zone and took its objective, which was some pillboxes at a road junction(Got that from http://www.505rct.org/sicily.asp). Sounds like it could be a decent scenario, but one would need a lot more information before making an accurate scenario out of it.

von Paulus
02-23-2004, 06:41 AM
Hmmm ... surely hard to find. Ask the webmaster for a detailed account of the battle.
I you need a map, just tell me the location or the nearest city and I think I can send you something useful.

Paulus

General Bolt
02-25-2004, 06:16 PM
Paratrooper!: The Saga of U.S. Army and Marine Parachute and Glider Combat Troops During World War II by Devlin. ISBN: 0312596529 covers allot of the para operations in WWII. I own it, but haven't read it, so I can’t say for certain on Sicily.