We Led the Way: Darby's Rangers

From the moment they hit the beaches in North Africa to the last desperate struggle at Anzio, Darby's Rangers only asked for one thing- the opportunity to fight. Experts at amphibious landings, night attacks and close combat, the Rangers were the spearhead for the advancing U.S. forces. And, at their helm, was William O. Darby, a daring combat leader in the highest tradition of the U.S. Army.This is Darby's own story of those climactic days in his own words as dictated in just a few months before his death to his friend General William H. Baumer. Against overwhelming odds in Tunisia, through the concentrated hell at Gela, on to the final kill at Messina and the Italian mainland, Darby and his Rangers truly led the way...