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  • Flight Journal

    Sent by the Iron Sky

    Feb 18, 2020 3 minutes
    By Ian Gardner

    Osprey Publishing, 260 pages

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    Ian Gardner served for five years in support company of the 10th (Sussex) Battalion, the Parachute Regiment as a medic before leaving the U.K. Territorial Army in 1993 due to injury. Always enthusiastic about military history, several years after leaving the Battalion, Ian became interested in World War II American paratroopers. Following a visit to Normandy in 2000, he decided to focus on the 101st. He is also the author of Airborne: The Combat Biography of Ed Shames of Easy Company. Currently self-employed, he is married with two grown children and lives near Aldershot in Hampshire, England.

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