Written by Bill Bonnamy Bill Bonnamy travels the footsteps of the 319th Glider Field Artillery of the 82nd Airborne Division, in which he father, William, served in World War II. Bill records his journey at 319Gliderman.com, which collects a huge amount of photographs and documents related to the unit. Among his stops is the Amalfi
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Written by Todd DePastino While reading Bill Bonnamy’s website devoted to the 319th Glider Field Artillery, 82nd Airborne Division, I was reminded just how long and drawn out the Normandy Campaign was in World War II. Look at the map above, available here, and you get a sense of how contained, contricted, and prolonged
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Written by Todd DePastino Bill Bonnamy’s website devoted to the 319th Glider Field Artillery, 82nd Airborne Division, contains a growing treasury of information, documents, photos, and stories from and about all things 82nd Airborne. Most of the material has come from family members of those who served in the division in World War II
written by Carole Popchock While listening to VBC Greatest Generation Live programs about the Air War in World War II, I remembered a family story about the death of my father’s first cousin, Frank Ladesic. Frank Ladesic was a B-24 pilot in the Fifteenth Air Force in Italy. My family had always understood that
