He gives the signal and jumps into blackness over Normandy, followed by the six thousand other paratroopers on the first combat mission of the 101st Airborne Division soon to be forever known as ‘The Screaming Eagles’.” Perched at the aircraft’s open door is Captain Frank Lillyman.
A C-47 Dakota is humming over the skies of Nazi-occupied France. “It’s fifteen minutes past midnight on June 6th 1944.
