Into The Fire: the 275th Infantry Regiment in WWII by Tim Desiderio

by Tim Desiderio, Roy T. Veary (Illustrator)

Into The Fire-The 275th Infantry Regiment in World War II details the record of a unique regiment - one of only a handful of regiments withdrawn from training months before it would have been certified "combat ready" and deployed to Europe - during the Second World War, based on archival research, period memoranda, and interviews. During an October 1944 visit to the European Theater of Operations (ETO), Army Chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall, agreed to send Supreme Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, as many additional regiments of infantry as he could, before Ike launched the final push into Germany. Neither anticipated a particularly active combat role for the regiments;rather, they were to be committed to relatively inactive sectors replacing exhausted combat weary regiments, so they could be temporarily withdrawn to rest and refit. There were, however, no infantry regiments ready (trained) for deployment, and Marshall decided to withdraw nine regiments from

388 pages, Paperback

First published January 18, 2005