During the night of 5-6 June 1944, the Pathfinders were the first Allied soldiers to set foot on Norman soil, the paratroops of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions fighting all night until the 4th Infantry Division, landing on Utah Beach, linked up with them.

German troops and defenses, paratroopers’ eyewitness accounts, unpublished material, a superbly illustrated album.