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of F Company, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment.

‘All went well until arriving near the DZ ‘O’ the C-47s did not slow up for the drop. Everyone in the 2nd Battalion agreed that it was the highest, fastest jump ever made. Eyeballs had to be screwed back into their sockets. The Second Battalion landed on or near the DZ. Except for one stick from F Company and they headed for the centre of Ste-Mère-Eglise.’

In the first few minutes low cloud obscured the target areas and the 2nd Platoon mortar squad of F Company, 505, mistimed their exit and landed in the Square of Ste-Mere-Eglise. Thirty minutes before, two sticks of the 101st Airborne’s 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment had jumped across the east side of the town. The German guards killed four and this alerted them to the 505 error.