Letters Home: A Paratroopers Story

Letters Home: A Paratrooper’s Story is an account of a combat paratrooper, Harland “Bud” Curtis. Bud joined the paratroopers in April 1943, and found himself assigned to the famed “517th Parachute Infantry Regiment, later to become a Parachute Regimental Combat Team, “The Battling Buzzards” (which was the only parachute regimental combat team in the European Theater of war). From 1943-45, Bud wrote over 130 letters home to his mother, detailing his experiences from initial training to the e...