FORWARD
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The following accounts the military life of my grand-father, Dale Sutherland who at age of twenty-one enlisted in the United States Airborne. Dale was put into Fox Company of the 502nd PIR (Parachute Infantry Regiment) which was soon to be attached to the infamous 101st Airborne Division and would take part in many combat operations of the final years of the last world war such as the Normandy Campaign, Operation Market Garden, the Ardennes Offensive and would be deactivated on the 30th of November 1945 with rest of the division in Austria after undertaking occupational duties. I have attempted to piece together his and his men’s war time experience from his personal diaries and stories he told me as a child.
-Frank Sutherland
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PERSONNEL
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A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:
Welcome to my newest After Action Report and my first for Hearts of Iron III! As you might guess this a completely historical account of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne through the eyes of fictional characters of 1st Squad in narrative form. I am not playing an actual game of Hearts of Iron, I am accounting directly from history. I have influenced greatly by the HBO Miniseries: Band of Brothers to take you along the journey of the 502nd who fought alongside the famed 506th Regiment. It has been written as through the use of diary entries in the form of a book written by the fictional grandson of one of the soldiers! Remember to tell your friends!
DISCLAIMER:
All characters in this AAR are fictional except Robert G. Cole and or other famous military generals
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