utah beach, which is the other one from omaha beach, which is the one then linked up with the paratroopers of the hundred and first airborne division with which i was assigned. at the time in the 82nd, which i served in multiple other times flying across the english channel, willed extraordinary. the truth is that most of our paratroopers and most of us in general are there to have a good time we had been billeted the nights before it english airbases that had actually from which the paratroopers of d-day had flown but as we flew across the channel, it was as if the weight of history descended on our shoulders because we realized that the magnitude of what it was these paratroopers did in jumping in during the period of darkness before the amphibious landings. >> and all that was riding on them and help parallel is it really was if you look back now and say, oh, that was inevitable, it was not inevitable. >> this is an incredible undertaking. general eisenhower described it rightly. he said to the men and women who are going to take part in it, you are about to embark upon the

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