US 101st Airborne Division 1942-45
✍ Philip Katcher
📂 Library
📅 1978
🏛 Osprey Publishing
🌐 English
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UNITED STATES 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION, 1941-45
✍ Scribed by PHILIP KATCHER
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- OSPREY PUBLISHING
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- 1978
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- English
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- 50
- Series
- Vanguard 005
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- Library
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