Just
a few hours after this photo was taken on June 5, 1944, this American
Paratrooper, (pictured) will die making the night combat jump into
France on D-Day.
Col. Robert "Bull" Wolverton, commander of the
3rd Bn., 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division is preparing to jump on
Saint-Come-du-Mont, Normandy in this photo.
His unit was the
same regiment to which belonged the legendary "Band of Brothers,"
Wolverston's Operation Market Garden and Battle of the Bulge in
Bastogne.
Despite being killed before landing on French soil, Order of battle for the American airborne landings in Normandy, Wolverton's
legacy endured, particularly on the strength of a prayer spoken to the
750 men in his battalion hours before the D-Day parachute drop behind
enemy lines.
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