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This WW2 forum is intended for asking and discussing reference or historical related issues pertaining to WW2 (1939-1945) subjects.
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 Subject:  Re: BARs and Paratrooper Usage During D-DayList thread.  
  
 Date:  May 1, 2007
 From:  Rob galassi 
Tim,

Here's what I've found.

So far, I've been looking through Ed Ruggero's "Combat Jump" (Sicily), and all MGs seemed to have been dropped in para bundles. I didn't see one mention of a BAR, except for one para who took one from a dead infantryman several days into the battle.

In Nordyke's "All American All the Way", which I consider the definitive history of the 82nd in WW2, in looking at the chapters on Normandy, again, I found no mention of anyone jumping with an MG, but many mentions of them in para bundles.

Regarding the BAR in Normandy, there were several instances of paras using them very early in the fighting in the early AM of June 6, which leads me to believe that they were not taken from dead glider men, but rather were jumped with the paras or dropped in bundles.

Please post if you read this...otherwise, I'll try to contact you some other way.

Rob
 
Thread Listing 
  BARs and Paratrooper Usage During D-Day - Tim Streeter - Apr 28, 2007
. . . Re: BARs and Paratrooper Usage During D-Day - Rob Galassi - Apr 28, 2007
. . . . . . Re: BARs and Paratrooper Usage During D-Day - Tim Streeter - Apr 28, 2007
. . . . . . . . . Re: BARs and Paratrooper Usage During D-Day - Rob Galassi - Apr 29, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: BARs and Paratrooper Usage During D-Day - Robert Anderson - Apr 29, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: BARs and Paratrooper Usage During D-Day - Rob galassi - May 1, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: BARs and Paratrooper Usage During D-Day - Tim Streeter - May 1, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: BARs and Paratrooper Usage During D-Day - Rob galassi - May 2, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: BARs and Paratrooper Usage During D-Day - Tim Streeter - May 2, 2007
. . . Re: BARs and Paratrooper Usage During D-Day - Arun Bauer - May 16, 2007
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