On D-Day, his plane was hit and caught fire, forcing him to jump earlier than expected. He landed 20 miles (32 kilometers) away from the town of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, the first French village to be liberated from Nazi occupation. “We all got a little scared then. And then whenever the guy dropped us out, we were away from where the rest of the …
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