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Just before the invasion Lovat, 32-year-old veteran of Dieppe, the Lofotens and many a secret Commando raid, conferred with the commanding general of the British Sixth Airborne Division somewhere in southern England. One detachment of the Sixth's parachute and glider troops was to carry out the desperate mission of seizing key bridges over the River Orne and the Caen Canal. They were to hold them against German counterattack until Lovat's Commando-men could fight their way in overland. The general explained...
...Somewhere in France-A general of the invading American armies, a paratrooper and glider pioneer who was killed in a glider crash, was buried here today with a simple ceremony in the country he came to liberate...
...commander was one of the best-known, best-liked of U.S. airborne officers: Brigadier General Don Forrester Pratt, assistant commander of the 101st Airborne Division. He had led his detachment to a landing on the extreme right of the Allied line, northwest of Carentan. He died when his command glider crashed into a tree...
...Airborne. That first day the paratroopers had landed near midnight-six hours before H-hour-to prepare the way for the glider-borne divisions which had swooped like hell's witches into the area behind the German lines...
...from Brooklyn who "had become a tribesman by the ancient ceremonial of cutting a finger and mingling his blood with that of an Apache. Beyond the standard paratrooper's armament, they carried the most bizarre equipment ever seen in modern Europe, including nylon garrotes made from stolen glider towropes (deemed more efficient for quiet strangulation than piano wire) and knives almost as thin as hatpins, for penetration of an enemy head just below the ear. One brave demonstrated the razor sharpness of his machete by clipping tough field grass with lazy swings. Another, carrying steel knuckles crested with...