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And Then The Dawn Came [BoB]
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Last published Tue, May 20, 2025
Six months following the attacks of Pearl Harbor, new Bryn Mawr graduate, Esther Armstrong has been sticking it out at Fort Bragg in North Carolina in W-Sector; a small selection of women in the Armed Forces that report and photograph the Home Front for the American people to see. It's only when a special request, via Colonel Robert Sink, from Camp Toccoa, Georgia, of the 506th Airborne Division, requests the presence of a war correspondent to document one of the newest additions to the military, the Airborne. Specifically, Easy Company of the 506th. Esther enlists the assistance of fellow combat photographer, Mercy Codona, and the two travel down to Camp Toccoa to begin documentation of Easy Company and the Airborne.
Esther and Mercy follow the men of Easy Company through training and all the way to D-Day, where suddenly, they meet women who have been fighting this war for years, whose stories Esther refuses to let go untold.
FEATURING.....
ESTHER ARMSTRONG; war correspondent
MERCY CODONA: combat photographer
THE MEN OF EASY COMPANY; throughout the war
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BAND OF BROTHERS [alternative historical fiction]
multiple OCs x canon characters (eventual)
MATURE THEMES: dark history, graphic, violence, war, death, mental health, etc......
started: 1/4/21
started updating: 3/22/25
ended: -
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