A D-Day Veteran Remembers: Part I

Recorded as part of the Veteran's History Project for The Library of Congress, we are proud to include it here at the family's request...
Training in England; practice makes perfect; midnight takeoff; above St. Mére Église; B-24's in the van; the Channel Islands; flak incoming; threading the needle; total blackness; a break in the overcast; 82nd Airborne out the door over flooded lowlands; catching zzz's in a Quonset hut; D-Day +1; C-47: workhorse of Operation Overlord; Resupply missions.

Episode LXXXIII