And well into the fall too… It’s a big stack of unit history books that landed on my doorstep last week.

It started while looking for a used copy of ‘Put Us Down in Hell’ by Phil Nordyke. I received a tip that it contained new information for me about the 82nd Airborne officer I have been researching: David E. Thomas. He was the 508th PIR regimental surgeon and would later become a general in Vietnam. Sure enough, this book mentions him a number of times and I am thus able to fill some gaps in his WWII period.