Reddit mentions of Currahee!: A Screaming Eagle at Normandy

I agree, i have read the book cover to cover at least 5 times, it has so much value.

Davids book is here


I can also suggest these:

Cpl. Forrest Guth: 'E' Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division

Biggest Brother : The Life of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led the Band of Brothers

Currahee!: A Screaming Eagle at Normandy

Brothers In Battle, Best of Friends (By William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron)

Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters


and anything else by Steven E Ambrose is fantastic , especially citizen soliders and wild blue.

I think I read this as a Reader's Digest Condensed Book as a kid. I think I read it 5x

https://www.amazon.com/Currahee-Screaming-Eagle-at-Normandy/dp/0440236304

Different book, but I read this years ago. There may be more info in it about contingency plans that I just don't recall.

https://www.amazon.com/Currahee-Screaming-Eagle-at-Normandy/dp/0440236304/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518555847&sr=1-1&keywords=Currahee

Don't know the origin, but I learned it when I picked this worn paperback book up (back in the 80s or early 90s). It's a first-person account of training and then parachuting into Normandy in WWII, and they sung the song then for sure.

https://www.amazon.com/Currahee-Screaming-Eagle-at-Normandy/dp/0440236304

Bodies actually do bounce surprisingly enough.

Source: "Currahee!" by Donald Burgett

Good book by the way

The 101st was no secret.

They were badass as fuck and the Krauts knew it.

Your comment still kicks ass, though!

If you haven't read Donald R. Burgett's series of first-person accounts, YOU MUST!

Curahee! A Screaming Eagle at Normandy is the first one.

It's the With The Old Breed by E.B. Sledge of the ETO.

Probably. Source: http://www.amazon.com/Currahee-Screaming-Normandy-Donald-Burgett/dp/0440236304