Crisp-Pulaski County GaArchives Military Records.....AVERY, GORDON P June 6, 1944
WWII - Rosters U.S. ARMY PARATROOPER
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FORMER CORDELE BOY AMONG FIRST IN FRANCE
 GORDON P AVERY, WHO SPENT HIS BOYHOOD DAYS HERE, AND A BROTHER OF THREE CORDELE
RESIDENTS, WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO LAND IN FRANCE, ACCORDING TO A RECENT NEWS
RELEASE.
 AVERY, WHOSE HOME IS IN HAWKINSVILLE, IS A MEMBER OF THE GLIDER TROOPS AND LANDED
IN NORMANDY WITH THE 82ND AIRBORNE DIVISION.
 HEADQUARTERS OF THE EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY STATES
THAT WHILE AMERICAN,ENGLISH AND CANADIAN SOLDIERS WERE WADING TO THE BEACHES OF
FRANCE ON D-DAY, GLIDER TROOPS OF THE 82ND AIRBORNE INFANTRY DIVISION ,WHO HAD
LANDED HOURS BRFORE, WERE HOLDING OFF TWO FULL GERMAN DIVISIONS WHICH WERE TRYING TO
BREAK THROUGH TO STOP THE LANDINGS.
 TO STOP THE RUSH OF GERMAN RESERVES, THE GLIDER TROOPS CAPTURED THE TOWN OF STE.
MORE EGLISE AND FOUGHT FOR AND HELD FOUR BRIDGES OVER THE MORDERET RIVER AT LA FIERE
AND AT CHEF DU PONT AND OVER THE DOUVE RIVER AT PONTI ABBE AND AT BOUZEVILLE IN
BASTILLE.
 IN SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETING THEIR ASSIGNMENT IN THE PLAN FOR THE INVASION OF THE
CONTINENT, THE MEMBERS OF THE DIVISION, MANY OF THEM VETERANS OF LANDINGS IN SICILY
AND ITALY, THEN FOUGHT SOME OF THE
GREATEST BATTLES IN THE HISTORY OF THE WAR. ONE FOURTH OF THE MEMBERS OF THE
REGIMENT OF THE DIVISION WERE AWARDED BRONZE STARS FOR INDIVIDUAL ACTS OF BRAVERY. 
 THE UNIT FOUGHT FOR 33 DAYS WITHOUT RELIEF OR REPLACEMENTS; THEIR ACCOMPLOSHED
EVERY MOSSION ASSIGNED TO THEM AND NO GROUND THEY GAINED WAS EVER
RELINQUISHED.THOUGHT CASUALTIES WERE HEAVY,

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