Currahee Author:Donald R. Burgett Currahee! — Donald R. Burgett was 19 when he made the night jump at Normandy with the 506th Parachute Regiment. Currahee! is his story of the five days and nights of fighting that raged behind the beaches--a young soldier's initiation to the overwhelming shock of combat, and the only first hand narrative of D-Day by a paratrooper that we are ever... more » likely to have.« less