D-Day

Easy Company. Their mission on D-Day was to seize the causeway exits (roads) on Utah beach. Flying over the English Channel to the drop zone, it was very tense. Nobody was talking. The people in charge of this drop gave all the men an anti-airsickness pill. The men had never had one of these pills before anytime they were in the air. Most of them were sleeping. They were all packed down with hundreds of pounds of stuff they needed. They were using this new thing called a leg bag they never tried before. They were not used to jumping with them on. It would be an interesting jump.

When they were getting close to the coast of France, it started to get very cloudy out. The planes were flying in a pack. But then, they spread out a little more so they would not collide. But then, they could not see each other and the green light going off to tell when to jump. When they got over the coast, German anti-aircraft guns were shooting at the planes. The pilots got nervous of being shot down, so they lowered their altitude and increased their speed to make themselves a harder target to hit. The pilots had no communication with one another and they dropped the men nowhere near the drop zone and very spread apart. The landing was very hard. Many broke limbs. When they jumped, their leg bags broke off. These leg bags were holding all their ammo and weapons. Most men were lost when they landed. They were pretty much SOL if they didn't find anybody.