Description: David Kenyon Webster, author of "Parachute Infantry - An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich"
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David Kenyon Webster was a member of E Company, 506th Regiment of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division during World War II. He was an aspiring writer who left Harvard to enlist in the paratroops. Webster wrote numerous letters to his family and, after the war ended, wrote a book about his experiences, Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich . Webster's letters home and manuscript were used as source material by Stephen Ambrose for his book Band of Bro
In October 2002, Random House published a revised and expanded version of David Kenyon Webster's Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich . This new edition includes over 100 pages of previously unpublished material, including 20 letters home, and restores some of the grittier language and actual names that were used in Webster's manuscript. It includes an introduction by the late Stephen Ambrose.
A previous edition of Parachute Infantry was published posthumously by Louisiana State University Press in 1994. The Washington Post noted then, "Ambrose was right to urge publication of this almost-forgotten memoir. It is beautifully written and perfectly evokes life and battle in a parachute infantry company." HBO's "Band of Brothers," based on the book by Stephen Ambrose, follows the paratroopers of E Company from training in Georgia through the end of World War II. E Company jumped into Normandy on the