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"Three of the Last WWII Screaming Eagles describes in a rich, powerful, and often intense way the war experiences of Jim ""Pee Wee"" Martin, Dick Klein, and Dan McBride, three WWII paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division also known as the Screaming Eagles. Conveyed almost exclusively in their own words and with many details not previously published, this book covers how these men grew up during the Great Depression, describes their demanding paratrooper training in the U.S., and goes into great depth about their wartime experiences. The primary focus of this book is on the arduous battles they fought against the Germans in France when they jumped into Normandy the night before D-Day, after they made their second combat jump into The Netherlands during Operation Market Garden, as well as their final major battle in Belgium during the epic fighting in the cold and brutal winter at the Battle of the Bulge. This might be one of the last books based on first-hand interviews of WWII veterans, as we are losing large numbers of the WWII generation each and every day. The revenues of the book will go to two U.S. foundations, the Patriot Foundation and the Screaming Eagle Foundation. Both foundations support children of U.S. veterans with scholarships. Raising funds for scholarships with the revenues will help these children tremendously, as this is the positive effect: Studies have shown that simply opening a college savings account for a child, even if it contains an extremely small sum, will exponentially increase the chance that he/she will go to college."" (Source: The Wall Street Journal, ""Start Early to Raise Money-Savvy Kids"" by Beth Kobliner, July 28, 2013.) The aim of this book is therefore not only to capture these fabulous stories but also to raise money to give children a better prospect."

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Three of the Last WW2 Screaming Eagles is not only a marvelous and superbly researched tribute to three World War II U.S. paratroopers. It is also a labor of love to America by a distinguished lieutenant colonel of the Royal Dutch Army who strongly believes that the citizens of his country should never forget the sacrifice of ordinary Americans in the name of freedom. Carlo D'Este Winner of: the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military writing and the Andrew J. Goodpaster Prize. New York Times bestselling author of Patton: A Genius for War. This book is a solid work of historical research, providing original documentation that will be of great value to any historian today or in the future. It is a pleasure to read on many levels. --Karl Marlantes Winner of: Flaherty-Dunnan Prize, Indies Choice Book Awards, James Webb Award, WA State Book Award, William E. Colby Award. Author of Matterhorn, What it is Like to go to War and Deep River. This book is highly readable, crammed with fascinating stories and would have been as valuable, even if it was researched half a century earlier. Don't miss it! -- Mark Bando, author of 6 books about the 101st Airborne in WW2. LTC Groen has done us a favor and an honor by capturing in their own words the experiences in combat of Jim PeeWee Martin, Dick Klein and Dan McBride -- veterans of the Screaming Eagles, the 101st Airborne Division. We owe Lt. Col. Groen a debt of gratitude for capturing their memories. --Joseph L. Galloway Winner of: National Magazine Award, Robert Denig Award, Tex McCrary Award. Co-author: We Were Soldiers Once...And Young and We Are Soldiers Still. If you love oral history, you'll love Three of the Last WWII Screaming Eagles, by LTC Jos Groen. This is a must-read for fans of military nonfiction. --Marcus Brotherton New York Times bestselling author of We Who Are Alive & Remain and A Company of Heroes.

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"Lieutenant Colonel Jos Groen MSc (1963) began his military career in March 1985 as a conscript in the Dutch Marine Corps but currently services as an officer in the Royal Dutch Army as he transferred from the Marine Corps to the Army in 1989. He was deployed to Uruzgan (Afghanistan) in 2010, where he worked as the Staff Officer Information Operations within the TFU VIII staff. This was his third mission abroad after earlier missions with Dutchbat III (1995) in Bosnia and Task Force Fox (2002) in Macedonia. ""Three of the Last WWII Screaming Eagles"" is his fourth book but his first one written in the English language by him."

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