This is an excellent book, loads of wonderful pictures and descriptions of events. Highly recommended for anyone with a passion for WW II ETA history or airborne history.

My grandfather was in WW II and was part of the 319th Glider division. He was a hero in my book. My father and uncle have recently completed a book on the 319 th (coming soon). He thoroughly enjoyed this as well.All American All the Way!!!!!

This is an excellent photographic tribute to the men of the 82nd Airborne Division who suffered and sacrificed so much during World War II.

The book is an excellent companion piece to the author's combat history of the "All American" division. Both books have the same chapter headings and can be read simultaneously, although the photographic history is quite skimpy on text (the introduction to each of the 36 chapters being one page).

The book also includes over two dozen detailed maps that help you follow the progress of this proud division from its training in the U.S. and elsewhere to its landings and operations in Sicily (Operation Husky), Italy (e.g., Salerno and Anzio), and Normany (e.g., Operation Neptune Ste. Mere-Eglise), not to mention its involvement in Operation Market Garden in Holland, the Battle of the Bulge (Operation WACHT AM RHEIN), the occupation of Berlin, and the victory parade back home.

The book is a valuable asset not only as an adjunct to the author's combat history of the 82nd Division but also on its own as a fascinating photographic study of U.S. airborne operations in World War II.

Phil Nordyke's a foremost expert in 82 Airborne history. He has based his information form historical text but has obtained most of the hard core history form the WW 2 veterans of the 82nd Airborne themselves. I have meet Phil at the Reading Air Show he has introduced me to many 82nd AB veterans. I have all his books signed by him and several veterans. Phil is a dedicated historian and is an expert on 505th history.

This is a great book showing RARE photos that are not in the average books and on the web. I would highly recommend this as well as all his books:

"Airborne All the Way"!!!

JERSEYCITYJOHN

The photos and accompanying text are excellent. A condensed version of Nordke`s earlier work on the 82nd, but with a much larger format.

I am both pleased and impressed with this latest work by Mr. Nordyke. This book is an outstanding visual supplement to the history ALL AMERICAN ALL THE WAY which came out last year.

A year ago I arranged to visit the 82nd Airborne Division War History Museum to examine their photographic archives. Now I have copies of many of the same photographs in the convenient format of this book. In addition, this work contains many other photographs which are new to me. It has given a clear historic visual representation of the All-American 82nd Airborne Division in WWII.

I have been a great enthusiast of photographic histories, and this one passes my inspection with highest honors.

Phil Nordyke's latest work THE ALL AMERICANS IN WORLD WAR TWO is truly a magnificent work of eye-poping photo journalism worthy of it's juggernaut narrative companion volume ALL AMERICAN ALL THE WAY!

Having been a student of the 82nd Airborne Division and the 505th Parachute Infantry Regimant in particular all my adult life I was truly surprised to see so many photographs for the very first time! While any photographic record would include many familiar pictures Nordyke's gift for narrative and crips prose bypasses the routine, sets the stage and clarifies what the reader is seeing thus providing a compelling vision of what the World War Two ALL AMERICANS experienced themselves in the greatest conflict ever known to man.

Drawing on exhaustive research and hundreds of first hand accounts gives the author's text a crisp immediacy and authority as equally compelling as the photographs are visually stunning.

More than a companion volume the book stands alone as a worthy visual testament to the bravery, sacrifice and honor of the ALL AMERICAN DIVISION. I am personally grateful for this work and when open it up I am sure you will be too.

ALL THE WAY!!